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Before We Were Yours
by Lisa Wingate
So this book was given to me by my Blogging buddy Berit for our #SwapsieSunday read for our blog, i give her a book and vice versa, we talk about it a week later, shameless plug but you should totally follow us >>>> https://audiokilledthebookmark.com/
Aaaaaanyway, this book was just wonderful, i thoroughly enjoyed listening to the audio book, expertly narrated by Emily Rankin & Catherine Taber.
I try not to read the blurb on books that i have been recommended as i tent to be put off, so as normal i went in to this one blind.
It wasn't until i had got about halfway through that i realized that it is based on a true story!!!!!
This story is loosely based around the story of Georgia Tann, The Tennessee Children's Home Society, and her involvement in the kidnapping, and child trafficking of hundreds of children.
Often mothers still heavy with sedation were told that the baby they had just delivered had died, or were just made to sign a paper, not really knowing that they were signing away their child.
Other ways of stealing children, well just taking them from your front porch was a normal occurrence!
This woman used to advertise the children in the papers as a "Live Christmas Present" or something equally as disturbing, but the thing is, people loved her, they saw a woman helping poor little orphans out, they didn't see that behind closed doors the children were being beaten and physically/sexually abused.
In fact she was loved so much that movie stars and "well to do" people used to get children from her, the move star Joan Crawford actually got her 2 children (twins) from Georgia Tann at the Childrens home.
To this day some of the children that were taken from their parents have never found their families again, that is just so sad.
Even though this was a sad story to read, the way that the author writes was like pure poetry on the pages, and i loved it!
Actual Newspaper advertisements.
Aaaaaanyway, this book was just wonderful, i thoroughly enjoyed listening to the audio book, expertly narrated by Emily Rankin & Catherine Taber.
I try not to read the blurb on books that i have been recommended as i tent to be put off, so as normal i went in to this one blind.
It wasn't until i had got about halfway through that i realized that it is based on a true story!!!!!
This story is loosely based around the story of Georgia Tann, The Tennessee Children's Home Society, and her involvement in the kidnapping, and child trafficking of hundreds of children.
Often mothers still heavy with sedation were told that the baby they had just delivered had died, or were just made to sign a paper, not really knowing that they were signing away their child.
Other ways of stealing children, well just taking them from your front porch was a normal occurrence!
This woman used to advertise the children in the papers as a "Live Christmas Present" or something equally as disturbing, but the thing is, people loved her, they saw a woman helping poor little orphans out, they didn't see that behind closed doors the children were being beaten and physically/sexually abused.
In fact she was loved so much that movie stars and "well to do" people used to get children from her, the move star Joan Crawford actually got her 2 children (twins) from Georgia Tann at the Childrens home.
To this day some of the children that were taken from their parents have never found their families again, that is just so sad.
Even though this was a sad story to read, the way that the author writes was like pure poetry on the pages, and i loved it!
Actual Newspaper advertisements.