The Cruel Mother
In 1919 the author”s great-grandmother, Beth, gave birth to triplets. One of the babies died at birth and eleven days later she drowned the surviving twins in a bath of cold water. She was sentenced to an indefinite term of imprisonment at Broadmoor.
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Sian Busby's deeply felt and well researched book is a tale of awful enchantment.
Fascinating, part autobiography, part moving family history, with sharply etched portraits richly embedded in their social and historical milieu.
A gripping tale of madness and infanticide during the time of the Great War... Powerful and disturbing.