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082	0	4	_a362.732092 _222
100	1		_aKelly, Judith, _d1943-
245	1	0	_aRock me gently : _ba true story of a convent childhood / _cJudith Kelly.
260			_aLondon : _bBloomsbury, _c2005.
300			_a275 p. : _b1 ill. ; _c24 cm.
500			_aFormerly CIP. _5Uk
520			_aFor many years I suffered the nightmares born of the time I spent at that convent. The memories that project across my mind are shared by the silent community of victims who once lived as I did, in a world that was deaf to our circumstances. And it all took place in middle England. In the 1950s, shortly after her father's death, Judith Kelly was left in the care of nuns at a Catholic orphanage while her mother searched for a place for them to live. She was eight years old. Far from being cared for, Judith found herself in a savage and terrifying institution where physical, emotional and sexual abuse was the daily norm and the children's lives were reduced to stark survival. As the months became years and no word came from her mother, she sought comfort instead from the girls around her, and especially the bright, angel-voiced Frances, who seemed miraculously untouched by the nuns' persecution and the abject misery surrounding her. When a tragic accident robbed Judith of her dearest friend, the traumatic memories of the event were to trouble her deeply, long into her adult life. Years later, at a kibbutz in Israel, Judith met and befriended an elderly Holocaust survivor. It was a friendship that began with an instinctive recognition of the fear and suffering each had experienced, and one that would begin an emotional journey culminating in Judith's return to the Nazareth House orphanage to confront her memories and to achieve some measure of peace. Rock Me Gently is an astonishing, moving and deeply shocking memoir, and a story that resonates in the mind long after the final page.
600	1	4	_aKelly, Judith _xChildhood and youth.
650		0	_aOrphanages _zEngland
650		0	_aNuns _zEngland.
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