The Forgotten Child: The Powerful True Story of a Boy Abandoned as a Baby and Left to Die Contributor(s): Gallear, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0008352445 ISBN-13: 9780008352448 Publisher: Harper Element OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Survival - Family & Relationships | Adoption & Fostering |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.2" W x 7.8" (0.50 lbs) 320 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Adoption - Topical - Family - Holiday - Mother's Day |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Based on a true story, The Forgotten Child is a heart-breaking memoir of an abandoned newborn baby left to die, his tempestuous upbringing, and how he came through the other side. It's a freezing winter's night in 1954. A baby boy, a few hours old, is left by his mother, wrapped in nothing but two sheets of newspaper and hidden amongst the undergrowth by a canal bank. An hour later, a late-shift postman is walking wearily home when he hears a faint cry. He finds the newspaper parcel and discovers the newborn, white-cold and whimpering, inside. After being rushed to hospital and against all odds, the baby survives. He's baptised by the hospital chaplain as Richard. Based on a devastating true story, this inspirational memoir follows Richard's traumatic birth, abusive childhood, and search for the truth. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gallear, Richard: - Richard was the name given to the baby found by the canal by the hospital staff. Gallear was the surname of his adoptive abuser. Throughout the trials and terrors of his childhood, Richard survived to tell the tale in The Forgotten Child. |