THE BOY WITH NO SHOES by William Horwood ( 9780755313181 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

THE BOY WITH NO SHOES
A MEMOIR

By:

William Horwood

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0755313186

ISBN 13:

9780755313181

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Publisher:

HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP

Pub. date:

4 April, 2005

Pages:

448

Description:

By the author of the bestselling Duncton Wood chronicles, William Horwood's THE BOY WITH NO SHOES is an imaginative memoir of exceptional power, destined to make literary history

Synopsis:

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.

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