Shane Dunphy 
Hush, Little Baby 

Five heart-stopping true stories of terror and triumph, told by the man who tried to make life better for these troubled children …Clive, a thirteen-year-old victim of terrifying demonic visions, tells frightening stories of abuse and imprisonment. Could they be genuine?Patrick, twelve, bravely setting out to find the truth about his birth family – however painful it may be …Six-year-old Johnny, tiny and undernourished, desperately tries to recover from a brain-injury inflicted by his drunken and violent father … At fourteen, Katie is so aggressive that the authorities have put her in special care, away from other children. What could be the cause of such fury?And in a grim island prison, a lumbering bully ponders his crimes against his twin children, Larry and Francey – while his sadistic and conniving wife, the real monster behind his actions, tries to fool the state into returning the traumatised boy and girl to her care.