All my brother's secrets : a powerful true story of love, loss and brutality / Terence O'Neill.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : HarperElement, 2020Copyright date: �2010Description: vii, 311 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780008349073 (paperback)
- O'Neill, Terence -- Childhood and youth
- O'Neill, Dennis -- Childhood and youth
- O'Neill, Dennis -- Death and burial
- Abused children -- England -- Biography
- Adult child abuse victims -- England -- Biography
- Child abuse -- England -- Shropshire
- Foster home care -- England -- Shropshire
- Trials (Manslaughter) -- England
- 364.155540922 23
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"First published as Someone To Love Us by HarperElement 2010"--Title page verso.
Terry O'Neill was just ten years old when he stood up in court to testify against his brutal foster parents, accused of the manslaughter of his twelve-year-old brother, Dennis. Terry and his brother had been taken into care and moved through many foster homes until they came to live on the Shropshire farm owned by Reginald and Esther Gough in 1945. There they were to suffer brutal beatings and little care or love--they survived as best they could, looking out for each other, until the terrible morning when Terry couldn't wake Dennis. In a time when the country was united by war and struggle, the case shocked the nation and made headlines around the world. Terry, a small figure in the courtroom, captured the hearts of mothers and families everywhere, and the public outcry against the foster services led to the instigation of the first provisions to protect other vulnerable children from neglect and cruelty.
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