{"product_id":"serve-anne-marie-allen-9781804582862","title":"Serve: My Lost Years at the Heart of Ireland's Opus Dei","description":"Anne Marie Allen was fifteen when she was accepted onto a cookery school course that promised real qualifications and a future in the career of her dreams. Seeking a better life, she moved to the calm and peaceful countryside of the west of Ireland. Her happiness was short-lived as it became clear she had been tricked instead into a life of domestic servitude to the members of Opus Dei.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore long she was whisked away to Rome where she signed her life away with vows to serve. What followed were years of misery in slavery, forced celibacy and traumatic physical suffering under an ambitious and tyrannical institution that demanded perfection, humiliation and pain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer family eventually managed to coerce a visit home where they refused to let her return to the Order, and where they began the long process of deprogramming Anne Marie - a task that has been a life-long struggle. \u003ci\u003eServe\u003c\/i\u003e is Anne Marie's remarkable story of strength and resilience in the face of religious zealotry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne Marie Allen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1804582867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781804582862\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Gill Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Anne Marie Allen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46807205576959,"sku":"9781804582862","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_058d58fe-5c2c-47ab-bff5-45e700f6c77c.jpg?v=1745378825","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/serve-anne-marie-allen-9781804582862","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}