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Stolen

Escape from Syria

Louise Monaghan author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd

Published:14th Feb '13

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The heartbreaking yet uplifting story of a mother who risked her own life to rescue her kidnapped daughter from war-torn Syria.

In the middle of one of the worst civil wars in Syria's history, Louise Monaghan crossed a heavily guarded border to save her six-year-old daughter from the father who had callously snatched her from her home in Cyprus.

In the middle of one of the worst civil wars in Syria's history, Louise Monaghan crossed a heavily guarded border to save her six-year-old daughter from the father who had callously snatched her from her home in Cyprus. Not knowing what lay ahead, the Irish mother tricked her ex-husband into believing she still loved him and wanted them to live together as a family, purely so that she could see her kidnapped child again.

Once in his homeland, Louise too was held captive, locked inside a run-down house day and night with little food and no hope of being released. Sick from polluted water, severely beaten by her ex-husband and abandoned by the Turkish men paid to rescue her, she took her little girl and made a daring escape.

The journey they made through bomb attacks and sniper fire, and across a heavily patrolled mountain range in the dead of night, was a harrowing ordeal. Yet miraculously they both survived, and Stolen is Louise's breathtaking account of events.

Reads like a thriller . . . an extraordinary story * Irish Sunday Independent *
An incredible journey to the hell of the Syrian warzone * Sunday World *

ISBN: 9781780575919

Dimensions: 198mm x 127mm x 16mm

Weight: 178g

256 pages