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    The Forgotten Child: The powerful true story of a boy abandoned as a baby and left to die
    The Forgotten Child: The powerful true story of a boy abandoned as a baby and left to die
    The Forgotten Child: The powerful true story of a boy abandoned as a baby and left to die
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    The Forgotten Child: The powerful true story of a boy abandoned as a baby and left to die

    Written by Richard Gallear

    Narrated by Mark Elstob

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    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.
    Everything feels as though it’s looking up; Richard is put into local authority care and regains his health. However, after nearly five blissful years in a rural care home filled with loving friends, it soon unfolds that his turbulent start in life is only the beginning…

    Based on a devastating true story, this inspirational memoir follows Richard’s traumatic birth, abusive childhood, and search for the truth.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 21, 2019
    ISBN9780008320782
    Author

    Richard Gallear

    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.

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    • 5/5
      This storyline is written in the times that people didn't report abuse. People just stayed to themselves. Poor children endured too much. This book tears at your heart. It's a must-read on why the laws had to change.
    • 5/5
      I’ve read a lot of memoirs… This one it’s just amazing! I loved it... especially the end!
    • 5/5
      Very compelling and sad. I hope the author is happier now.
    • 5/5
      Do yourself a favour and read/ listen to this book .