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The baby of a young mother of three happy children has a temperature in the morning. The mother and father take the infant to hospital where it is found to have a bone fracture in the leg. It is then assumed by medical and social services that the parents have deliberately caused this injury. Once in progress, the machinery of state is unstoppable. By the time it is discovered that the baby suffered from a rare, but not unknown, birth injury a procedure of removal of all the children for enforced adoption has been approved. The terrifying dedication of social services to enforcing their own judgement, would have had - and in real life does have - tragic results. Here the two protagonists, the patient and strong mother and the determined investigative journalist, succeed in saving the three children from being taken away. Very moving and frightening. Hopeful, denouement,

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Book category Books in English Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: Don't Cry Aloud
• Author: Denise Robertson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 288
• EAN: 9780992893323
• ID: 09201014
• Publisher: HPCQ
• Weight: 451 g
• Dimensions: 198 × 129 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 2015

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