Böcker av Roger Conlon

This is the story of Melanie Shaw, a historic whistleblower into paedophilia in the corridors of power and elsewhere. She is currently being held as a political prisoner in Rampton Hospital. Campaigners are working hard to get her release from her illegal detention on fake fire-raising charges. The book also delves into the murky world of the entertainment industry; high-profile and powerful figures in political life, the judiciary, and defence sectors get exposed and shamed and should go on trial in a court of law for crimes against minors. Generating a consensus that its own sex abusers can not corrupt the law, the purpose of the novella is to ensure that Melanie gets her freedom and that future generations of children remain protected from the insidious and destructive effects of child abuse. Children need not just a voice but a spokesperson.

The book will be of especial interest to those interested in the emancipation of women in nineteenth-century Edinburgh. A domestic servant who is wrongly accused of murdering her lover's husband resists the patriarchal legal system and male oppression. Her employer who is also her lover tries to regain her reputation through philanthropic endeavor in the poverty-stricken old town.