# The Cruel Mother

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- Book: [The Cruel Mother](https://www.bookquiver.com/sian-busby/the-cruel-mother) ([The Cruel Mother.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sian-busby/the-cruel-mother.md))
- Authors: [Sian Busby](https://www.bookquiver.com/sian-busby)
- Publisher: short_books
- ISBN: 978-19-0497-706-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2005-05-19
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In 1919 the author's great-grandmother, Beth, gave birth to triplets. One of the babies died at birth and eleven days later she drowned the surviving twins in a bath of cold water. She was sentenced to an indefinite term of imprisonment at Broadmoor.