Cry and You Cry Alone: The Girl Who Vowed She'd Never Forget

Rosalinda V. Hutton

Apr 2011 · Random House

About this ebook

After an idyllic early childhood in Surrey, Linda's life descended into poverty and chaos when her parents' marriage crumbled and her unstable mother's sanity declined.

She experienced a brief period of comfort in a caring foster home before being plunged into the dark, terrifying world of a 1960s institution. St Anne's Convent, Orpington, was a Catholic children's home run by the infamous Sisters of Mercy and a former monk who inflicted bizarre and barbaric beliefs and practices on the children in his care.

Cry and You Cry Alone is the achingly honest story of a survivor of shocking child abuse that took place in the heart of an English suburb.

Ratings and reviews

I read this book, paying far too much, because I try to support victims of abuse, like myself. However I found this book poorly written, and the editing ridiculous. The heroin was not made out to be a credible character, and her illness seemed suspect, at best, by the way the information was presented. There was no continuity, and the redundancy of her personal feelings being expressed was very tiring, as no new information was presented, just the restatement of her feelings. See, it is ALREADY boring, after only two sentences. After reading pages and pages of the same thing, it becomes VERY frustrating, it is not good writing just boring drivel. No offence to the foul mouthed "LADY" who this story is about, but if your only statement is about how I hate this nun and her counterpart because they beat me every day I was at their home, in their ward, and you just keep restating the same thing, that isn't a book. Okay you were happy to be a tramp with lice as a kid, most kids don't understand the importance of proper care, they love their parents unconditionally. And then the realists know they wouldn't be in the MIRE without them!

Abuse in homes

About the author

Rosalinda V. Hutton has worked as a legal secretary and as an English lecturer. She has an honours degree in humanities and currently works with adults with learning difficulties and mental-health problems.