There is now that much controversy surrounding the events at the two children’s homes on Jersey, an independently governed island off the British Isles, which probably won’t result in any answers, that the best thing to do is read the views of the children that went through them in absence of any proper legal proceedings….
You can check British Google News for more background information but some of the better articles and ones where comments are referred to in the book, are listed at the Daily Mail website below. Daily Mail UK Online Essentially, those will tell you the story in a nutshell and at least one of the photos…
Nancy Richards in hosting this month’s edition and has it posted over on her Heal and Forgive blog. As always, there’s a lot of good stuff in there, I look forward to reading more!
Charlie Mitchell starts off his physical/mental abuse survival memoir with a bite-sized education for people outside Scotland of the world of Dundee, almost 30 years back. Much of the speech is phonetically written so you may find it easier to imagine a Scottish overall narrator to the book (or Mel Gibson doing his Braveheart accent)….
Nancy Richards is hosting the next Blog Carnival Against Child Abuse. She’s looking for contributors and you’ve got one week, deadline is Weds. Feb 4th!
I read the book Sleepers and then watched the film at the time, 13 and 14 years ago, then bought the film on VHS and more recently, recorded it on DVD when shown on TV. I think it’s only now the somewhat manufactured controversy surrounding the book and movie has died away with time, that…
