Nobody Heard Me Cry: An Irish boy sold on the streets, a whole life shattered - Softcover

Devane, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340962763 ISBN 13: 9780340962763

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2008

Synopsis

John was only a baby when his father died. His mother struggled desperately to bring up five kids alone but her own despair led her to alcoholism and blind rages. John's childhood was a nightmare of neglect and beatings, but whne he was nine, things became infinitely worse. Preyed on by his mother's lodgers, John was sold into prostitution on the streets around the docks in his home town of Limerick.
By the time he was 16, the legacy of pain from his childhood had left him suicidally depressed but a stint in the army and a determintion to escape his past gave John the courage to make a better life for himself. He trained as a lawyer and channelled his deep need to pursue justice for himself into his work for others. He built a reputation for defending the criminals of Limerick when nobody else would. One day, the unthinkable happened and he had to make a choice about whether to defend one of his childhood abusers.
This is the extraordinary story of a life nearly destroyed by horrors and the hard choices one man made in his fight to recover himself.

About this title

Book Description:

A little boy is abused, beaten and sold into prostitution on the streets of Limerick. Twenty years later, now a maverick lawyer, he defends the men who abused him. This is the extraordinary story of a long battle for justice.

About the Author:

John Devane still practices as a lawyer in his home town of Limerick, Ireland. He is married with a family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0340962763
• ISBN 13: 9780340962763
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288