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Art and ghosts meet as women reclaim the shadows of Abbotsford Convent
What once would have been the sounds of playful chatter, is today replaced by the piano keys twinkling at a music academy. But beneath the melody, there’s something else – a murmur, a mutter, something that makes the hairs on Patricia Sykes’ neck stand up.
Sykes – an 84-year-old woman whose hearty laugh radiates through her slight frame – was taken to the orphanage here at the age of 11, in the 1950s, alongside her three sisters after their mother died in childbirth.