The Convent: THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER: A shocking true story of surviving the care home from hell

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The statement went on: "In relation to this case, the Archdiocese safeguarding team was informed of the allegation made and the safeguarding co-ordinator in post at the time spoke at length with the individual and explored support which could be helpful to her. She has had a good life with children of her own and a second loving husband, but she is very scarred, as interviews in the papers show even more than her words in the book.

Marie was one of ten children, living in poverty in Oldham, and her parents could not cope, so were sadly forced to give her and her brother up. It is a heart breaking story of how a little girl Marie, in August 1959 ends up in a Convent, I would say the Convent of horror. She thinks she is being sent on holiday, but in reality her parents send her to a convent for both girls and boys though the boys are separated from the girls.The experiences described are truly awful and saddening, left an impression, and yet the book reads quickly, I finished it in 2 nights. Gripping reading as you wonder how much longer her family will leave her here, will they come back for her, will things get better?

I was shoved in a bath and they mocked me, stroked me like a cat and told me how cute I was,’ she recollects, squirming.This book takes us through Marie’s life of poverty and being sent away to live in a convent for three years of her childhood, the scars of this time never leaving her.

Her continued excuse making for the hellish life she lived because of them made it difficult for me.A big car pulls up outside they're house and off they go, watching with excitement as they pass into the countryside, they pull onto a large gravel drive not knowing that it is a convent and beyond those doors are depravity, cruelty assault and abuse not only by the other children but also the nuns as well. She says: 'The sexual abuse started in bed, the 12- and 13-year olds would get into bed with me and tell me: "This is what happens with boys". We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and improve our understanding of you. Set in Oldham towards the end of the 1950's little 6-year-old Marie and her brother are told they are going on a holiday. She lived there between 1959 and 1963 and hopes that others victims will come forward and hold the institutions she believes failed her accountable, the Liverpool Echo reports.