The Baby Laundry for Unmarried mothers

The Baby Laundry for unmarried mothers

By Angela Brown

Novel based on a true story

Based on a true story, Angela Brown takes the reader through an emotional and heartbreaking story that will have you in tears from the first page!

We are taken back to the 1960’s were miniskirts are all the range, a young band from Liverpool are winning the hearts of the Nation, and a young woman, not twenty years old has found herself pregnant and unmarried.

Angela Brown was 19 when she fell pregnant, having only recently split up from her boyfriend, and raised in a Catholic home, she was sent away to give her child up for adoption.  

She endured an exhausting and hard regime in a convent run by Catholic nuns, who looked down on her and the other pregnant girls for the shame they had brought upon themselves and their families.

Angela gave birth to a healthy baby boy, but had to give him away after only 8 weeks of taking care of him, night and day. 

It is shocking to read how these new and soon to be mothers were treated in the convent. The adoption issues back in the 60's are treated with secrecy, as if it is shaming for someone to do. 

The reader is taken on the journey with Angela, as we see her try to move on with her life, up until she receives a letter from her son thirty years later.

This honest and sad story will tug at your heart strings in more ways than you think.

The best bit was:

When Angela finally saw her son again, after so many years had passed.  True stories like these, really show the strength and love a mother has for her children.

Recommend?

I think females will prefer this book, saying that, the story can relate to anyone who has had pregnancy or adoption issues in the past.

The mail online posted an article on Angela's experiences and included pictures : link