$43.83
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2005
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780755313181 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0755313186 |
| Author: | William Horwood |
| Publisher: | Headline Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Headline Review |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2005 |
| Weight: | 355g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 130mm x 30mm |
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‘Beautifully written’
Beautifully written - Sarah Broadhurst, Bookseller
A powerfully moving memoir - Daily TelegraphAbout The Author
William Horwood
William Horwood was born in Oxford in 1944, the illegitimate last child of five. He was a feature editor with the Daily Mail until 1978 when he began work on the first of his now classic Duncton Chronicles series which became instant international bestsellers.
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