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The Baby Snatchers

By: Mary Creighton
Narrated by: Aoife McMahon
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Mary Creighton was just 15 when she found herself pregnant out of wedlock in 1960s Ireland. She dreamed of a happy life with her child, but that was shattered when she was sent away to Castlepollard - a home for mothers and their unborn babies. 

Stripped of their clothes and forced into gruelling work whilst pregnant, those who survived childbirth were made to force-feed their children for adoption into wealthy families. Babies were ripped out of their mothers' hands, but Mary refused to let that happen to her. She managed to escape only to later lose her beautiful daughter to social services and the meddling nuns...who always managed to catch up with her. 

After spending time in an infamous Magdalene Laundry and having another two children snatched away, Mary sought to find her lost children and demand answers for the atrocities committed supposedly in God's name.

©2017 Mary Creighton (P)2018 W. F. Howes Ltd Women Emotionally Gripping Heartfelt Pregnancy
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A truly heartbreakingly honest read, aptly capturing Mary's experience of incomprehendable loss and clerical abuse

Stark but such an emotive account of Mary's life

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Jeez Louise. All the way through this book all you’re thinking is let this girl/woman catch a break. These nun homes have a lot of answering to do.

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what they went through was one of the hardest and heartbreaking what was done them having to give your baby away

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Right from the beginning this story is riveting, it is well read and captivating. I can recognize the suffering of losing children and feel like this woman and other women have been wronged beyond comprehension. happy to recommend this book.

cruelty of the nuns

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This book was a great read very Sad, but True them poor Women, and Babys these Nuns was Evil & CRUL what the did to them poor young women but we’re DID ALL THE MONEY GO it makes you Wonder. Who had all that money ?

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