Secret Child

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Andrew Crofts. Secret Child

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Contents

Chapter One. Going Home

Chapter Two. Divine Intervention

Chapter Three. A New Start

Chapter Four. Decision Time

Chapter Five. Back to the Beginning

Chapter Six. So Long, Francis

Chapter Seven. He Who Dares

Chapter Eight. Off the Rails

Chapter Nine. Moving On

Chapter Ten. Brave New World

Chapter Eleven. Happy Families

Chapter Twelve. Hard Times

Chapter Thirteen. A Real Education

Chapter Fourteen. A Hard Day’s Night

Chapter Fifteen. Lessons

Chapter Sixteen. The Story of My Mother and Father

Acknowledgements

Chapter One. Arriving from Ireland

Chapter Two. Joining the Regiment

About the Publisher

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‘Yes,’ I said, clearing my throat to stop the emotions from choking me. ‘My home, where my mother brought me up until the beginning of the sixties.’

‘The most infamous one, of course, was the Magdalene Laundries, where we now know that the girls and women were treated very badly, worked like slaves until they were old in order to atone for their sins. But those mothers weren’t allowed to keep their children. Usually the newborn babies were taken away for adoption or put into orphanages. But as I understand it, this didn’t happen to you?’

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