Fairly Jane by Kathryn Cowling

Author:Kathryn Cowling
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance;thriller;domestic violence;Cornwall;Ambition;West of England;Heroine
Publisher: The Conrad Press
Published: 2018-12-11T13:46:52+00:00

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Lucy, my adoptive mother, wrote and told me that she had never felt so safe and happy in her entire life. Desmond was the soul-mate she had always wanted to meet. She had loved Michael but in a childish, immature type of way. Mother came to the conclusion that it was more through thankfulness than love for rescuing her from the nunnery in Ireland.

She may have been imprisoned, with the nuns, her entire life had Michael not stepped in and took to Bristol to stay with Violet and Len in the tiny terraced house, where they still lived. When she was a child my mother had lived a cushioned life, smothered by her over-protective parents. Her own mother was forty-two when she was born and Mother became the focal part of both her parents' lives.

When she became pregnant, her comfortable existence instantly vanished and her once loving parents dumped her one of the notorious laundries that were and still are common place in Ireland for unmarried mothers to be.

For many women, who were condemned to those dreadful places, it was the only home they would ever know. Then and now, only a male member of the woman’s family were permitted to free them. If no one did so, they were left to life of drudgery working for the nuns for just food and board.

Some of the women would rise through the ranks. The ones that had been there the longest became as evil as their captors; they would treat the new comers as barbarically as the sisters did. My mother had given birth to a baby boy who had died because the heartless nuns had failed to get medical help throughout the labour. Not a day went by when she did not think about her son.

Mother now smiled with joy as she felt the butterflies fluttering in her tiny stomach signalling the start of a new life inside her. She was forty-two, the same age as her mother when she had given birth to her first child; she promised herself that the child she was carrying would be loved forever, no matter what mistakes he or she made.

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