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Boy Number 26 by Tommy Rhattigan (Paperback, 2019)

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THE SEQUEL TO THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, 1963: A SLICE OF BREAD AND JAM Placing a child in care doesn't mean caring for a child. When little Tommy Rhattigan was taken into care in 1963 aged just 7, he entered a closed off world of institutionalised sexual abuse. Moved between a care home in Manchester and a reform school in Liverpool, the state was supposed to pick up the duty of care that his parents had failed to give him. But instead, separated from his siblings, young Tommy was thrown to the wolves. Tommy Rhattigan takes us, in his own inimitable way, back to his own childhood of pranks, cruelty and laughter, grown from a need to survive his daily torment and to stick two fingers up to the system that was failing him so spectacularly. Reader can't get enough of Boy Number 26: 'A heart-wrenching story' 'This is a good book that definitely needs to be read by anyone who cares about children or mental health' 'Rhattigan is honest and brutal in his writing' (Real reader reviews taken from NetGalley.co.uk)

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PublisherMirror Books

ISBN-139781912624171

eBay Product ID (ePID)4046610242

Product Key Features

Book TitleBoy Number 26

AuthorTommy Rhattigan

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

TopicMemorials

Publication Year2019

GenreBiographies & True Stories

Dimensions

Item Height198mm

Item Width129mm

Item Weight237g

Additional Product Features

Title_AuthorTommy Rhattigan

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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by squeeze1963
09 Aug, 2024
Great read
Follow up to 1963 is as good a read as the first book. Read in one day couldn’t put it down.
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by chardypeb08
04 Jun, 2020
Excellent.
Excellent book pulls no punches. Read A slice of bread and jam first and then Boy 26. Can’t put the book down. Harrowing account of what life was like for Tommy growing up in Manchester in the shadow of Hindley/ Brady. Great account of recent social history.
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by loob1956
23 Mar, 2025
brilliant read
an excellent and compelling read ,i would highly recommend this book .
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by sue10251
20 May, 2024
Books good excellent read
Books good excellent read
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by anthony6785
04 Dec, 2019
Boy number 26
Very good value
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by kitten3272
06 Jun, 2024
Brill thank you A*
Brill thank you A*
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by justsrusty_0
11 Feb, 2022
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