Bridge Across My Sorrows

Christina Noble is a child of the Dublin slums. Her story is one of bravery and resilience in the face of deprivation and abuse. After the early death of her mother her family was split apart, their alcoholic father unable to care for them. Christina was sexually abused and later escaped from an orphanage only to become destitute on the streets of Dublin. At 16 she was pulled into a car by four men and raped repeatedly. Later driven to near insanity by overwork and a violent husband, she found in a dream the will to fight back and her hope lay in a determination to work among the bui doi, the street children of Vietnam.