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The Boy Grows Up - Richard McCann

Description: ISBN 0091908647 / Genre: Biography / Author: Richard McCann / Edition: New edition / Paperback / 304 Pages / Book is published 2007-02-15 ... more

The Boy Grows Up - Richard McCann ... by Ebury Press

Newest Review: ... covered in the first book, though he recaps enough information so that this book can be read independently of the first. He ... more

... takes us through his life as an adult, trying to find his place in the world and bring meaning to his life. I can't begin to imagine what it would have been like for him as a child coping with his mother being murdered, not knowing what was true and what wasn't (like the suggestions she was a prostitute), the queries over the incidents with conspiracy theories and the media interest. On top of this, we learn how social services failed him as his father took him and his sister to live with him despite his drinking an...more

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The Boy Grows Up - Richard McCann: Broken Boy To Family Man (842 words)
by - written on 05/02/09 (Very useful, 64 readings)
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I picked this up from the library a few weeks ago as I've been reading a lot of autobiographical style books lately. At first, I didn't recognise the author but on reading the blurb at the back I realised Richard McCann wrote 'Just A Boy'. 'The Boy Grows Up' is the sequel to his first bestselling book which told of his experience as a child and adolescent. McCann is the son of one of the women murdered by the Yorkshire Ripper and the first book detailed his journey as a child and teen, being bought up after his mum had been cruely torn from his family. I haven't read the first book but I intend to pop down the library and get it and I was impressed by his ... Read the complete review