Christina noble obituary

The first half of the book is Christina Noble's life story, of growing up in Dublin in poverty with a family under the cloud of domestic violence & alcohol, of her mother dying when Christina was a girl, her father abandoning her and her siblings, thus ensuring they were put in "Catholic orphan homes". The mistreatment she suffered there, escaping finally to live on the streets. Her violent rape and later marriage to a man who beat her and caused her to be admitted into a mental hospital. For a woman with barely an education she survived all that and went on to start a Foundation to save and help street kids in Vietnam. Her vision keeps expanding and now encompasses Mongolia. see here;
http://www.cncf.org/en/home/index.php
While the writing isn't classic literature by any stretch of the imagination, her personal story makes up for it so I have given it 4 stars. Don't expect to be dry eyed, or unshocked, some of the horrific descriptions rival anything one has read before.
The 2nd half of the book details her work in Vietnam and how sh

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