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Stolen Faith: A forbidden love. A stolen child. A divided family
Belfast, 1944: American soldier James McCann meets the beautiful and impetuous Rose Rafferty. They fall in love, but their romance is forbidden – and war separates them.
Boston, present James’s children are celebrating his life when they find a wartime letter that changes everything. They have a half-sister, born in an Irish mother and baby home, stolen by the nuns and exported to the US.
Their search for justice will cross oceans and generations. It will uncover secrets and lies, revealing the abuse of the most innocent in society by the most powerful. It will pit them against Church and State and shine a light into the darkest corners of Irish history.
Boston, present James’s children are celebrating his life when they find a wartime letter that changes everything. They have a half-sister, born in an Irish mother and baby home, stolen by the nuns and exported to the US.
Their search for justice will cross oceans and generations. It will uncover secrets and lies, revealing the abuse of the most innocent in society by the most powerful. It will pit them against Church and State and shine a light into the darkest corners of Irish history.
288 pages, Paperback
Published April 28, 2022
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April 4, 2022
An eye-opening and tragic story that details the harrowing experiences of the victims of mother and baby homes in Ireland as well as child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church and its coverup. A real page-turner and no doubt an accurate depiction of the horrors the victims went through.
Although fiction, the book does a great job of fully explaining the systemic and institutional hierarchy that perpetuated secrecy and violent criminal acts that affected victims both physically and emotionally. The natural progression of the chapters evokes the interconnected and cyclical nature of the abuses that not only affect the initial victim, but the generations which the victim will leave behind.
Although fiction, the book does a great job of fully explaining the systemic and institutional hierarchy that perpetuated secrecy and violent criminal acts that affected victims both physically and emotionally. The natural progression of the chapters evokes the interconnected and cyclical nature of the abuses that not only affect the initial victim, but the generations which the victim will leave behind.
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