The Asylum cover art

The Asylum

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

€0.00/month for the first 3 months
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

The Asylum

By: Ann Cusack - contributor, Carol Minto, Joe Cusack - contributor
Narrated by: Fiona McNeill
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £13.99

Buy Now for £13.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

For 46 years, Carol Minto has quietly gone about her life, carrying with her the most extraordinary and heartbreaking secrets.

Born into poverty and with mostly absent parents, Carol helped to raise her nine siblings. But when she was just 11 years old, her older brother began to sexually abuse her. After four years, Carol managed to escape - and ran away from home.

Picked up by social services, they place her at Aston Hall in Derby, a psychiatric hospital now infamous for the ghoulish ‘truth serum’ experiments it carried out on children. Over three years, Carol was stripped, sedated, assaulted and raped by Kenneth Milner, the doctor in charge.

Eventually she is released back into the community, aged 18, and has a daughter. But the baby is taken away for adoption, and Carol’s trauma intensifies. In 2010, Carol finally plucked up the courage to speak out about the abuse she suffered - and received justice, at last.

In The Asylum, Carol tells the full story of how she overcame unimaginable suffering, to find the happiness and solace she has today as a mother and grandmother.

©2021 Ann Cusack (P)2021 W F Howes Abuse Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Relationships Sexual Abuse & Harassment Women Emotionally Gripping Heartfelt Inspiring Scary

Listeners also enjoyed...

 Cupboard Boy: A Shockingly True Story of Horrific Child Abuse cover art
Vow of Silence cover art
A Family Secret cover art
A Girl Worth More cover art
Broken cover art
The Convent cover art
Abandoned cover art
The Hospital cover art
Groomed by a Gang cover art
Silent Sisters cover art
Not a Proper Child cover art
Unsafe cover art
The Boy in the Cellar cover art
Secret Slave cover art
The Bad Room cover art
Sold to Be a Wife cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
What a HEART BREAKING story.. carol you are STRONG and RESILIENT. I love your spirit of forgiveness ❤🥂

Resilience

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I found I just had to finish this book as quickly as possible as I just could not comprehend or believe how one person went through so much and managed to survive... God bless you.

Heartbreaking but what a brave lady so much sadnes

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
loved it would read it again, absolutely believable, humour amongst the misery , light at the end of the tunnel

girl of courage

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
A harrowing story of an innocent let down, firstly by her family and then by the corrupt system.

A heartbreaki g Story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Heart breaking but enjoyable to listen to a story of such a strong woman...

Carols strength

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
fascinating and gripping book, hard to hear at times. what a nightmare the poor girl lived

incredible read

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
What an incredibly written story of a horrific life. I felt every emotion for her and with her. So brave

Outstanding portrayal

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Such a sad story but told with an amazing spirit and with a beautiful ending. A very brave women.

Moving and shocking

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Bless this women who against all odds survived this horrific life of such pain & mental torture, may the rest of her life be filled with much happiness, although she will never forget, she has been a martyr to all abused children & adults x

A powerful Gripping story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Thank you Carol for sharing your horrific story from an era not too distant in the past. The descriptions of life in the 70s were so visual it took me back to my own childhood. But what you suffered was horrendous, but taking it to our justice system and getting a feeling of justice I hope was worthwhile not just for you but for all those who suffered. The book was thought provoking and heart breaking whilst demonstrating everyday super hero’s do exist.

Horrific Tale overcome by strength

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews