Buy this book on-line HORWOOD**, WILLIAM: : THE BOY WITH NO SHOES: A MEMOIRLONDON.HEADLINE BOOK PUBLISHING 2004. ISBN 0755313178.
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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.
His life begins to change with the arrival of his grandmother from Africa and their move to a dilapidated house in the fishing quarter of an east Kent coastal town.In the close-knit community of its narrow streets and wind-swept shore,Jimmy discovers at last how to love and be loved.
The triumphant story of a boy's struggle with early trauma and his remarkable journey into adulthood is based on bestselling novelist William Horwood's own heartbreaking boyhood in south-east England after the Second World War.Using all the skills that went into the creation of his modern classics 'Duncton Wood', 'Skallagrigg' and 'The Willows in Winter', Horwood has painted an unforgettable picture of childhood suffering,personal survival and the power of faith and courage to turn darkness into light.
'The Boy With No Shoes' is the story of an extraordinary journey from a past too painful to imagine to a future every child deserves.
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