Boy : one child's fight to survive in the brutal British care system
Cooper, Nigel2015
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'My parents had to try for eighteen months to conceive me, but my father was adamant he wanted one last child. After eighteen months of trying, my mother eventually conceived and nine months later I was born. My birth was a difficult one. It was like I was never meant to be in this world.' 'Boy' is Nigel Cooper's memoir from the age of five to sixteen. It tells the shocking, brutal, disturbing, emotional story of his childhood spent in and out of various care homes and institutions during the 1970s and 1980s.
Main title:
Author:
Cooper, Nigel, author
Imprint:
London : Ebury Press, 2015.London : Ebury Press, 2015.
Collation:
325 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781785030789 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
Local class:
362.732 COOB COO
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1776761