The stench entered my nostrils, turning my stomach and then, with a sudden further push, my face was in it. I read this in a few sitting over lunch breaks etc - fairly easy reading as it was another version of the same abuse I had already read in "Child C" by the authors brother. Shaw's one chance to bring him down will come in the most unlikely of places: a serene, bucolic village in Provence. I just hope someday that all the child abusers have to face what they have done just like this one did. The beatings and other bizarre punishments inflicted on Alloma and other children are described in detail but in a matter-of-fact style that makes them even more chilling.

Brother Christopher Spry wrote a book titled 'Child C', after the name he was given by social services, and Alloma Gilbert also published Deliver Me From Evil. Eunice started to keep the curtains closed permanently, so no one could see in from the outside and, of course, we couldn't see out.She was kindness itself on her first visit to our house, chatting to us all in a friendly, lively way. When the will was read a few days later, we discovered that the farm had been left in trust to Charlotte, Eunice's favourite adopted daughter.

She starts the book off by saying that it was not intended to be entertainment so much as a way to speak out against her "foster mother" and child abuse, as well as to be a therapeutic and personally cathartic experience for her.From the information in this book, I don't even know if Spry mounted a defence during the trial and was left in the dark.