The Convent: THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER: A shocking true story of surviving the care home from hell

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Set in Oldham towards the end of the 1950's little 6-year-old Marie and her brother are told they are going on a holiday.

In 2015, Marie was contacted by police, who were investigating claims of abuse against Sister Isobel O'Brien, as part of Operation Cleopatra. I am furious and disgusted that so many children have suffered under the Catholic Church and it’s always covered up!Sister Isobel O'Brien has been identified by police as part of the investigation into the historic offences alleged by Ms Hargreaves. Get the latest news from Greater Manchester, the UK and around the globe on the free Manchester Evening News apps - download them here for your Apple or Android device. Sister Isobel stood at the door, let a group of older girls in and stood, overseeing and all-seeing,’ she explains tearfully.

She isn't even allowed to keep her own name and the Convent is overseen by an utterly vicious and sadistic nun. He's actually taking them to a convent where her hair is bluntly chopped off, her clothes are taken away from her and her name is changed.

The Masked Singer UK's Lorraine Kelly, 64, delighted judges guessed she was 'a wee lassie': 'I need to ring Frankie Bridge to apologise! He was poverty-stricken, scruffy and unwashed, illiterate and uneducated, but to me, he was my hero. Her mother is pregnant again so it would mean poor little Marie will have another baby on her hands as her mother cannot cope with the ones she has. In the end, the author depicts her life with honesty and her final revelations were both truthful and direct. oh my goodness, I can't imagine the heart ache and torment that little girl went through, her whole life was a battle to survive,but survive she did.

Love Island All Stars fans slam Liberty Poole for crying over Mitchel Taylor again despite pair's bitter split: 'They broke up like 10 times! Marie was told by her father she was going away on holiday when a car arrived to take her away from their home in Oldham.Now Marie has written a book, The Convent, with the help of journalists Ann and Joe Cusack, although it is so painfully evocative of the pain of her childhood years and the poverty her family had to endure, she struggles to read it. Later, I thought that it was the author remembering it as experienced by a six year-old and not adding the details that an adult knows as is usual in memoirs.