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Beaten from an early age by his abusive father John struggled to fit in at school where his poverty marked him out. When aged 13 his father brought a charge against him in order to remove him from the family home John found himself in Juvenile Court - from here he was sent to the notorious St. Vincent's school run by a group of Catholic Irish Brothers.
Beatings and abuse were a part of daily life - both from John's fellow pupils but also from the brothers all of which was overseen by the sadistic headmaster Brother De Montfort. Tormented physically and sexually by one boy in particular and by the Brothers in general John quickly learnt to survive but at the cost of the loss of his childhood.
PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME GO tells in heart-rending detail the day-to-day lives of John and the other boys - the beatings the weapons fashioned from toilet chains and stones the loneliness - but we also see the development of John's love of reading his growing friendship with Father Delaney and his best friend Bernard and his unstinting love for his mother whom he feared was suffering at the hands of his violent father.
A painfully brutally honest account PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME GO is also an example of the resilience of the human spirit as it documents how John learnt to survive and come through his ordeal.
Unfortunately this item is either out of print or no longer available from our regular suppliers, we can no longer obtain stock of this item, and have sold out of stock in our stores. You may be interested in our similar titles below. | ISBN 13: | 9780007896752 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 345 |
| Dimensions: | 234 x 152 mm |
| Released: | 15/04/2011 |
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