Diana Millward Knihy

Poverty Knoll-Asylum for the Innocents, records the forty-year journey of the author from agony to acceptance, fury to forgiveness, and confusion to catharsis. She moves through an excruciating childhood, down the path of her past, exposing the travail of her family's plight. Her emergence from the cocoon of navet magnifies the adversity of her misfortune. At the tender age of four, Diana and her two older brothers are placed into 'The Home'. Grief-stricken, her world turns unbearable and her wretched life is haunted by memories of the day she was cruelly taken from her loving mother. After spending her childhood in the orphanage, the young girl's release brings different chaos into her life. She lashes out in resentment, seeking answers to questions that surrounded her detention. Her mother becomes a target. Alvena, powerless to furnish acceptable answers to Diana, helplessly watches as the angry girl spirals down the drain of narcissism, without hope of liberation. As Diana gathers enlightening answers to her pubescent suspicions, she slowly grows to realize the monumental depth of her mother's selfless act that led to the loss of custody and trust of her beloved children.