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The Boy With No Shoes: A Memoir by William Horwood (Paperback, 2005)

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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. 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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PublisherHeadline Publishing Group

ISBN-139780755313181

eBay Product ID (ePID)90178851

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Book TitleThe Boy with No Shoes: a Memoir

AuthorWilliam Horwood

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

TopicMemorials

Publication Year2005

TypeTextbook

GenreBiographies & True Stories

Number of Pages448 Pages

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Item Height196mm

Item Width130mm

Item Weight355g

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Title_AuthorWilliam Horwood

Topic AreaEconomic Sociology

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom

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by ang130643
20 Oct, 2018
sad funny moving educational.
The book is riveting, moving and well written. Very educational is may ways especially in getting into the mind of a child deprived of love. The condition of the product was more well used that good I would have thought.
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by sheba259
01 Aug, 2019
Worth reading.
He had a bad mother but found he went to wales on holiday ,he had help from his gran ,he went to uni ,And got on ,something I have never known a poor person to have the chance.so good luck to him .
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by orinocokid
14 Dec, 2016
One of those stories that stays with you forever.
I could tell that William Horwood must have experienced extreme unhappiness and great hardships to be able to write the way he does. His autobiography-fictionalised but still his story-is captivating from the outset until the very last sentence. You will laugh with him, you will cry with him. So superbly written that it's like watching a film. I'm so glad to have read this book, and like Skallagrigg, a book you are compelled to revisit again and again.
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by bonaventure140
20 Dec, 2017
the boy with no shoes
A beautifully told story. very moving. One of the best books i have ever read.
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by miniminx30
03 May, 2020
Great item as described. Can’t fault at at all.
Very much recommended
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by grave-pktk6r6
13 Oct, 2016
Page Turner
Just a great read. Am really enjoying this. Would highly recommmend.
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