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The boy in the cellar / Stephen Smith with Veronica Clark.

The boy in the cellar / Stephen Smith with Veronica Clark.
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362.76 SMIT
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ISBN 9781789461756 (paperback)
Name Smith, Stephen author.
Title The boy in the cellar / Stephen Smith with Veronica Clark.
Published London : John Blake Publishing, 2020.
©2020
Description 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : colour illustrations, colour portraits ; 24 cm.
Summary Starved and beaten, the little boy's world was a darkened room that measured just eight feet by ten with a single makeshift bed, bare light bulb, and a solitary table. Steve would spend his days conjuring up an imaginary world full of monsters he would draw to try and block out the physical and mental torture inflicted on him by his brutal father. Apart from a few admissions to hospital as a result of his 'imprisonment', Steve remained in the coal cellar of the family home where he was deprived of daylight, his childhood, school, and human contact until he'd reached his teenage years. Eventually, he escaped only to fall prey to the instigators of two of the worst cases of institutional abuse in the UK at Aston Hall hospital and St. William's Catholic School. This is a horrifying true story of torture and cruelty, that reveals a human's full capacity to fight for survival and search out happiness and hope.
Subjects Smith, Stephen -- Childhood and youth
Abused children
Adult child abuse victims
Other Names Clark, Veronica, 1967- author.
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