The Looked After Kid: My Life in a Children's Home

by PaoloHewitt (Author)

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  2003

  $3.31

  Placed in care at a very early age after his mother's breakdown, Paolo Hewitt experienced a traumatic, often abusive relationship with his foster mother. Moved to an orphanage at the age of ten, he vividly documents what life was like for children growing up in care in the 1970s and addresses the emotional struggles, the fear and rejection that so many children without a normal family life experience. Moving and humorous and with a cast of memorable characters, The Looked After Kid is a book about love and luck, broken promises and loyalty amongst friends. It is about the strength and compassion in all of us. It is a book written from the heart and is dedicated to all those who go to sleep at night believing the world to be a dark and terrible place .

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.31

  Paolo Hewitt was put into care at a very early age following his mother's breakdown. He was placed with a foster family where he was regularly beaten and humiliated by the mother. After enduring years of her destructive anger and abuse he rebelled and was sent to an orphanage. He was ten-years-old. This volume tells what life was like for kids in a British orphanage in the 1970s. It has been written for all those children who, in the author's own words go to sleep at night believing the world to be a dark, terrible place . It addresses the emotional struggle which children who lived in orphanages faced, and seeks to address the feeling of fear and rejection which afflict so many children without a normal family life.