The Looked After Kid, Revised Edition

My Life in a Children’s Home

Nonfiction, Family & Relationships, Adoption, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Paolo Hewitt ISBN: 9781784500429
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Publication: October 21, 2014
Imprint: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Language: English
Author: Paolo Hewitt
ISBN: 9781784500429
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication: October 21, 2014
Imprint: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Language: English

Placed in care at a very early age, Paolo Hewitt went to live with a foster family where he endured extreme abuse and humiliation.

Following years of abuse he was sent to Burbank children's home at the age of ten where he met a gang of children. Like him, they were outsiders struggling to find their place in the world. Paolo paints a vivid picture of his coming of age in the children's home; of bruising fights, failed love, brushes with the law and enduring friendships, and describes how his salvation eventually comes through his passion for music and literature.

Gripping and perceptive, The Looked After Kid is is a testament to the resilience of children who 'go to sleep at night believing the world to be a dark and terrible place', but wonderfully emerge from the darkness to shine their lights on all.

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Placed in care at a very early age, Paolo Hewitt went to live with a foster family where he endured extreme abuse and humiliation.

Following years of abuse he was sent to Burbank children's home at the age of ten where he met a gang of children. Like him, they were outsiders struggling to find their place in the world. Paolo paints a vivid picture of his coming of age in the children's home; of bruising fights, failed love, brushes with the law and enduring friendships, and describes how his salvation eventually comes through his passion for music and literature.

Gripping and perceptive, The Looked After Kid is is a testament to the resilience of children who 'go to sleep at night believing the world to be a dark and terrible place', but wonderfully emerge from the darkness to shine their lights on all.

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