Agnes in Bloom
One woman's true story of triumph over adversity. By Karen Brady
Length7h 46m
About this audiobook
Discovering gut-wrenching family secrets isn’t easy.
Secrets... kept out of shame, or in the name of love, can tear a world apart. Young Agnes was a survivor.
She somehow withstood the absence of a father, the loss of her little brother, and the rape at seventeen which left her pregnant. Against all odds, she found true love and married her sweetheart.
Then the unthinkable happened! Agnes in Bloom is a gritty, true-life, kitchen-sink drama, of a young mother’s struggle to overcome loss, tragedy, and harsh poverty.
Trapped by society’s expectations of a single mother in 1960s England, she must find the courage to carry on and find happiness in a world that seems so determined to crush her.
Follow her desperate fight to keep her eight children away from the grips of child services
Simultaneously tragic and hopeful. A riveting, romantic, and ultimately uplifting story about love over loss and the choices we make when confronted by the unimaginable
HERSTORY should never be forgotten
Audiobook details
GenreBiography and Memoir
Length7 hrs 46 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJun 19, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Title Page
2Acknowledgments
3Preface
41. Untimely Violent Death, 1942
52. War Years, 1942
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63. The Farmhouse, 1943
74. Rose, 1944
85. Coming Home, 1945
96. Back in Birmingham, 1945
107. First Birthday Card, 1949
118. Job Interview, 1949
129. Margie’s Wedding, 1949
1310. George’s 21st Birthday Party, 1949
1411. Firstborn, 1950
1512. Romance, 1951
1613. First Date, 1951
1714. Second Date, 1951
1815. The Marriage Proposal, 1952
1916. Wedding Day, 1952
2017. Devastated Margie, 1952
2118. Heartache for Margie, 1952
2219. Rose’s First Confession, 1952
2320. Incarceration, 1952
2421. The First Visit, 1952
2522. Second Birth, 1953
2623. Let’s Emigrate, 1953
2724. Margie’s Sanatorium Room, 1953
2825. Third Son, 1954
2926. Baby Brian, 1954
3027. Birth of Baby Daughter, 1955
3128. Margie’s Home Visits, 1956
3229. Margie’s Knife Attack, 1956
3330. Blazing Summer, 1956
3431. Fifth Born, 1957
3532. Henri Mancini’s Death, 1958
3633. The Letters, 1958
3734. Another Birth, 1959
3835. Pregnant Again, 1961
3936. Hospital Visit, 1961
4037. Hospital in an Ambulance, 1961
4138. Back at the QE Hospital — 13 November 1961
4239. The Day After Bob’s Death, 1961
4340. The Wake, 1961
4441. Convalescing, 1961
4542. Coming Home for Christmas, 1961
4643. Seventh Child, 1962
4744. Life Goes On, 1962
4845. Winter, 1964
4946. Billie, 1964
5047. Christmas Day, 1964
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