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The Throwaway Children
Written by Diney Costeloe
Narrated by Anne Dover
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully. Under pressure from her new husband, she is persuaded to send the girls to an orphanage. It is not long before the powers that be decide to send a consignment of orphans to their sister institution in Australia. Among them, without their family's consent or knowledge, are Rita and Rosie, the throwaway children.
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Diney Costeloe
Diney Costeloe is the author of twenty-three novels, several short stories, and many articles and poems. She has three children and seven grandchildren, so when she isn't writing, she's busy with family. She and her husband divide their time between Somerset and West Cork. Find Diney online at dineycosteloe.co.uk, or on Twitter @Dineycost
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Reviews for The Throwaway Children
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Couldn’t recommend this book highly enough! Just give it a-try, the narrator acts out each part beautifully and the story keeps you interested from the very beginning and throughout.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This novel, set in London after WWII, features Mavis and her two daughters, Rita and Rosie. When Mavis' husband is killed in the war, Mavis is desperate for the attention of a man and settles for a brutal man named Billy, whom she marries when she becomes pregnant. Billy is physically abusive to both his wife and stepdaughters, and insists that Rita and Rosie are not welcome in his home. Mavis' mother lovingly cares for the children until she is involved in an accident that requires hospitalization and a long recovery. During this period, Mavis terminates her parental rights and makes them wards of the state. In the state institution, Rita is deemed as a miscreant and badly mistreated while trying to care for Rosie. Eventually the girls are sent to a sister institution in Australia, where the mistreatment of Rita continues and Rosie is adopted into a family, where she endures the sexual abuse of her adoptive father for ten years before running away.This is such a sad story for "throwaway children" left without any adult protection or compassion once they were in the system. The people charged with their care were motivated by greed. Rita and Rosie basically lived with no adult to trust except their grandmother, and then she was taken from them despite her desperate efforts to find them. There is redemption at the end for Rita, who fought so long to earn a life she valued.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5sad book but really enjoyable. At first I wasn't going to read it because of the way the children were thrown away, basically, but so glad I read it. Looking forward to more Dinner Costeloe books.