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Against All Odds: The Angela Cannings Story
 
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Against All Odds: The Angela Cannings Story (Hardcover)

by Angela Cannings (Author), Megan Lloyd Davies (Contributor)
4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group (18 May 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0316733040
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316733045
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15 x 3.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 400,559 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Media support for Angela Cannings: 'A searingly honest account' Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan 'Her story is powerful and moving' Lorraine Kelly 'The question of wrongful convictions for the death of children [is] one of the most important and worrying issues of our time... I would wholly endorse the contribution a book of yours would make to this continuing debate' Jenni Murray

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Angela Cannings was charged with murder directly after she and her husband Terry lost their third infant in ten years. She was convicted because of a medical theory that came to be known as ' Meadow's Law', which stated that 'one sudden infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder until proved otherwise. Angela spent almost two years in prison and, at one point, found herself beside Rose West. A fellow inmate scarred her with hot coffee. Angela began to lose all hope, but a cellmate, Rose, helped her refocus on what was important - being reunited with her husband and their daughter Jade. In 2004 she was released unconditionally. Yet, together with the joy of her freedom, there came another ordeal for Angela and Terry - their struggle to rebuild a normal family life.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Against All Odds: The Angela Cannings Story, 18 May 2006
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I got the book delivered a few days ago, and only just got time to start reading it in the early hours of this morning. I have not been able to put the book down until I finished it 20mins ago. The book is so beautifully written, it is inspiring and heartfelt from beginning to end.
It is one of the best books I have ever read, it allows the reader see a true insight of the British Justice System and how bad it can be.
The book also lets you into the minds of a family torn apart by lies, hypocrisy the unjust and wrong theories. My thoughts go out to the family and I pray they will all heal in time and will come to terms and grieve for the tragic lose of their Children Maybe in time they will heal the wounds of what the British Justice System put them through. My thoughts are with all families like Angela's...
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Love - through all adversities, 2 Jul 2006
By N. Baldwin "nbaldwin12" (Portsmouth UK) - See all my reviews
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It has taken courage in no small measure for Angela Cannings to describe in this well written, no-punches-pulled work, both the damage done to her and to her family at the hands of officialdom, and then to tell the story of her trial and imprisonment, and her sucessful appeal against conviction for the 'murder' of two of her children. It takes still more courage for Angela to tell of the attempts made to move on with both Terry, her husband, and Jade, her surviving daughter, as a family after release, despite their unimaginable loss.

And yet there are those sublime moments too, such as Angela's last evening behind bars, when the friends that Angela had made during her confinement came to say goodbye to her, before what they strongly believed would be her successful appeal the next day; and right at the end, despite the years of enforced separation, the growing bonds of trust between Angela and Jade.

I certainly wish them well.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Shocking, 7 Jan 2007
A well written account of the unfortunate experiences of Angela and her family due to the incompetence of the British Justice System.
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