The Forgotten Child: The powerful true story of a boy abandoned as a baby and left to die - Softcover

Gallear, Richard

 
9780008320768: The Forgotten Child: The powerful true story of a boy abandoned as a baby and left to die
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0008320764 ISBN 13: 9780008320768
Verlag: HarperElement, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

Based on a true story, The Forgotten Child is a heart-breaking memoir of an abandoned newborn baby left to die, his tempestuous upbringing, and how he came through the other side.

It’s a freezing winter’s night in 1954. A baby boy, a few hours old, is left by his mother, wrapped in nothing but two sheets of newspaper and hidden amongst the undergrowth by a canal bank. An hour later, a late-shift postman is walking wearily home when he hears a faint cry. He finds the newspaper parcel and discovers the newborn, white-cold and whimpering, inside.

After being rushed to hospital and against all odds, the baby survives. He’s baptised by the hospital chaplain as Richard.
Everything feels as though it’s looking up; Richard is put into local authority care and regains his health. However, after nearly five blissful years in a rural care home filled with loving friends, it soon unfolds that his turbulent start in life is only the beginning…

Based on a devastating true story, this inspirational memoir follows Richard’s traumatic birth, abusive childhood, and search for the truth.

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Richard was the name given to the baby found by the canal by the hospital staff. Gallear was the surname of his adoptive abuser. Throughout the trials and terrors of his childhood, Richard survived to tell the tale in The Forgotten Child.

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Verlag
HarperElement
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0008320764
ISBN 13 
9780008320768
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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