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22%OFFDinah O´dowd - Cry Salty Tears - 9780099499787 - V9780099499787
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Cry Salty Tears

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Description for Cry Salty Tears Paperback. Over the years, Dinah suffered repeated physical assault, prolonged mental torture and destructive ignorance, yet successfully raised a family of six and nurtured the unique personality of a world superstar, her son Boy George. Here, she recounts the long and painful journey that she had to take. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BGA; BTP; JFFE3; VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 110 x 21. Weight in Grams: 152.

Cry Salty Tears is the tale of a mother's survival and eventual triumph over almost unbelievable domestic hardship. Not only did Dinah O'Dowd face the harsh and unforgiving elements of her background - an upbringing in poverty-stricken 50s Dublin, teenage pregnancy and a lone journey to London, but she also fought like a tigress against the shadows cast across four decades of her life by the dark central figure of her existence, her psychotically abusive husband Gerry.

Over the years Dinah suffered repeated physical assault, prolonged mental torture and destructive ignorance, yet successfully raised a family of six and nurtured the unique personality of a world superstar, her son Boy George. Finally she has reached equilibrium in the wake of the death of her husband, and is now ready to tell her story, striking a chord with women everywhere.

Unflinchingly honest, heart-rending in the telling and packed with inconsolable tragedy and biting wit, Cry Salty Tears recounts the long and painful journey Dinah had to take. From the moment when she first set eyes on the charming, blue-eyed Gerry, to the first blow he struck when she was pregnant with their child, the suicide attempt that depression and all encompassing fear led her to and ultimately to her release from his psychotic clutches, Cry Salty Tears tells how, despite it all, this extraordinary woman could at last reclaim her life.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publisher
Arrow
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
151g
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099499787
SKU
V9780099499787
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1

About Dinah O´dowd
Dinah O'Dowd was born and raised in Dublin. In 1959, at the age of 19, she escaped the suffocating atmosphere of Ireland, leaving her first born behind. It was at the pub she worked at in Woolwich that she met her future husband, Gerry O'Dowd. Over the years Dinah suffered repeated physical assault and prolonged mental torture, yet successfully bore and raised six children, one of whom became a world superstar - Boy George. In 2001 Dinah and Gerry finally divorced, after 42 years together. Dinah now lives alone in South East London.

Reviews for Cry Salty Tears
Compelling...an awful sort of love story, a grim protrait of domestic abuse. It is emotionally articulate and raw
Chrissey Isley
The Guardian
Searing honesty, down-to-earth description and the authentic voice of a woman who has suffered and survived
The Irish Times
An extremely harrowing account
You Magazine
[Dinah's] catalogue of abuse is spine-chilling
Review, Irish Independent
[A] courageous memoir
Irish Mail on Sunday

Goodreads reviews for Cry Salty Tears


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