Serve : my lost years at the heart of Ireland's Opus Dei
Allen, Anne Marie2025
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Anne Marie Allen was fifteen when she was accepted onto a cookery school course that promised real qualifications and a future in the career of her dreams. Seeking a better life, she moved to the calm and peaceful countryside of the west of Ireland. Her happiness was short-lived as it became clear she had been tricked instead into a life of domestic servitude to the members of Opus Dei. Before long she was whisked away to Rome where she signed her life away with vows to serve. What followed were years of misery in slavery, forced celibacy and traumatic physical suffering under an ambitious and tyrannical institution that demanded perfection, humiliation and pain. Her family eventually managed to coerce a visit home where they refused to let her return to the Order, and where they began the long process of deprogramming Anne Marie. This is a memoir of life within Opus Dei in Ireland.
Main title:
Serve : my lost years at the heart of Ireland's Opus Dei / Anne Marie Allen.
Author:
Allen, Anne Marie, author
Imprint:
Dublin : Gill Books, 2025.
Collation:
281 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781804582862 (pbk)
Dewey class:
267.182092920267.18267.182920/ALL920/WIL276.182920 ALL267.18 Page TurnersAF PAGE TURNERS920.72 ALL
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
3590436