Please, Daddy, No: A Boy Betrayed - Stuart Howarth

A lot of the books I tend to read are true stories, most of which tend to upset me when I am reading them but nonetheless i still keep buying more and more true stories to read. One book in particular which I read recently upset me a great deal and it was pretty hard to read the book without feeling discussed and sick. This book was called Please Daddy No which was written by Stuart Howarth - I think that by the name of the book you get a rough idea that this book is going to be quite a sad and disturbing book which will bring most of us to tears - admittedly this has to be one of the saddest and most horrific books I have read in a long time. The book is written by ...  Read the complete review

I came across this book in the library a few months ago as I've been reading a lot of these autobiographical, 'heart-rendering' books lately. I find that there's a fine line with real-life stories between being honest and emotional, and coming across as wanting sympathy (even if it wasn't intended that way). This book seems to fall in the middle; the story is undoubtedly provoking, but the way in which it was written, I felt, reduced it's level of impact and made it more difficult to read.# 'Please daddy, no' is written by Stuart Howarth, published in 2007 and costs around £5 on Amazon. The subtitle is 'a boy betrayed', suitably describing how Stuart felt with ...  Read the complete review