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Sunday Telegraph
‘A searing account of the emotional and physical cruelty meted out at the orphanage’
Sunday Business Post
‘Superbly told, and will stick with the reader long after the last page has been turned’
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
At last someone has had the courage and determination to write an account however harrowing, of what it was to live and survive the abuses that these institutions practiced upon their charges, the children. In this book Judith portrays vividly how the nuns, "sisters of mercy", betrayed the trust of these innocents placed in them by a crude weilding of their power aligned with a hideous blend of religious dogma. Despite it all this is an uplifting book because although scarred by her childhood experiences she is not crushed and through her later life travels discovers the relationships that will nurture her to win back her power.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read the original hard back book Rock me Gently by Judith Kelly ...
It made me weep for her and all abused children...
I am now reading the paperback version and the tears are still flowing as I read the crucifyingly painful Truth of her writing.
No matter what words are used the Truth is still the Truth and the Torment is still the same...
As a survivor myself and having been in the care of teaching nuns in the 50's I know the Truth of what I am reading...
I personally do not care about similar wording to other authors etc. I care about the Truth...
Judiths story will rip your heart apart.
It made me weep for her and all abused children...
I am now reading the paperback version and the tears are still flowing as I read the crucifyingly painful Truth of her writing.
No matter what words are used the Truth is still the Truth and the Torment is still the same...
As a survivor myself and having been in the care of teaching nuns in the 50's I know the Truth of what I am reading...
I personally do not care about similar wording to other authors etc. I care about the Truth...
Judiths story will rip your heart apart.
14 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Judith Kelly's book had me in floods of tears. How could people even contemplate abusing children? Hiding behind the Church and making excuses for their behaviour. I found this absolutely appalling and I was screaming mad with anger.
I don't care whether Judith Kelly had allegedly plagiarised the works of others, or only speculated on some of the detail. The fact was, she was telling the story from how she experienced the events personally and ok she may have filled in the gaps with other info. But I feel this was only to explain things in more detail.
This book is stomach churning and be prepared to have it imprinted on your mind.
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Wow!
This book is absolutly brilliant!! A fab read with sorrow and joy, you will hardly be able to put it down!! I couldn't!!
Published 7 months ago by MissMoneyPenny
Excellent account of events at Nazareth House
I actually live two minutes away from where Nazareth House was (It has now been converted into flats), and being interested in memoirs and the history of my town, I was compelled... Read more
Published 11 months ago by TheOnlyJediKnightinBexhill
a good book
even though to think of what happend to the children is truley heart breaking. I found that I could not put the book down I was just so intrested to learn how this small girl... Read more
Published 12 months ago by CD
Moving story
This book was so hard to put down. It never ceases to amaze me how much cruelty, meanness and downright lack of love or compassion existed in some of these orphanages run by nuns. Read more
Published 16 months ago by M. A. Russell
More personal experiences
Despite my own childhood experiences in one the Nazareth House homes, I read the paperback version of this book. Read more
Published on 18 Feb 2010 by Rosie Posy
Mind-blowing Book!!
Rock Me Gently deserves its status as a number 1 best-seller and it will remain my favourite book for a long time to come. Read more
Published on 9 Aug 2008 by Anita Gatehouse
Good Read
I thought this to be a good book, and gave me a good insight of what the convent life was like in the 50's, but I did feel it was played down a little. Bless them. Read more
Published on 18 Dec 2007 by Ladymoonlight
Saddened by disbelief of author's ordeal
I am saddened by the disbelief shown to the author, both in the media and some reviews here. My mother and two of my aunts were incarcerated in the Nazareth House at Southsea,... Read more
Published on 28 Oct 2007 by Granty
An Important Book
I wish the author had written this book sooner, because it has drastically changed my life and undoubtedly altered my thought processes instilled in me since childhood. Read more
Published on 19 Mar 2007 by Welsh Boy
A half-truth is as bad as a whole lie
I lose count of the number of supposed 'autobiographies' that I have read that claim to be true stories but are actually a murky cocktail of fact and fiction. Read more
Published on 2 Mar 2007 by Jessi
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