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The Boy With No Shoes :A Memoir
The Boy With No Shoes :A Memoir
paperback
Published:
4 April, 2005
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Description
Five-year-old Jimmy Rova is the unwanted child of a mother who rejects him, and whose other children bully him. The one thing he can call his own is a pair of shoes, a present from the only person he feels has ever loved him. When they are cruelly taken away, Jimmy spirals down into a state of loneliness and terrible loss from which there seems no recovery.
This triumphant story of a boy's struggle with early trauma and his remarkable journey into adulthood is based on William Horwood's own remarkable childhood in south-east England after the Second World War. Using all the skills that went into the creation of his modern classics, Horwood has written an inspiring story of a journey from a past too painful to imagine to the future every child deserves.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780755313181 |
| ISBN10 | 0755313186 |
| Number Of Pages | 448 |
| Item Weight | 355 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 196 x 30 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Headline Publishing Group |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Beautifully written * Sarah Broadhurst, Bookseller *
A powerfully moving memoir * Daily Telegraph *
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Author's Bio
William Horwood was born in Oxford in 1944, the illegitimate last child of five. He was a feature editor with the Daily Mail until 1978 when he began work on the first of his now classic Duncton Chronicles series which became instant international bestsellers.