The Boy in the Cellar
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The Boy in the Cellar

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Boy in the Cellar

About this book

Stephen Smith is the boy who did not exist.

Born out of wedlock in the early 1960s, Steve's parents hid him away from the world by locking him in the cellar...for thirteen years.

Starved and beaten, the little boy's world was a darkened room that measured just eight feet by ten with a single makeshift bed, bare light bulb, and a solitary table. Steve would spend his days conjuring up an imaginary world full of monsters he would draw to try and block out the physical and mental torture inflicted on him by his brutal father. Apart from a few admissions to hospital as a result of his 'imprisonment', Steve remained in the coal cellar of the family home where he was deprived of daylight, his childhood, school, and human contact until he'd reached his teenage years.

Eventually, he escaped only to fall prey to the instigators of two of the worst cases of institutional abuse in the UK at Aston Hall hospital and St. William's Catholic School.

The Boy in the Cellar is a horrifying true story of torture and cruelty, that reveals a human's full capacity to fight for survival and search out happiness and hope.

Information

Publisher
John Blake
eBook ISBN
9781789461763
Year
2019

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Prologue
  6. Chapter 1. Scissors
  7. Chapter 2. Slopping Out
  8. Chapter 3. Starlings And The Mouse
  9. Chapter 4. The Dance
  10. Chapter 5. The Hospital
  11. Chapter 6. Release The Dog
  12. Chapter 7. The Escape
  13. Chapter 8. Secret Drawings
  14. Chapter 9. A Change Of Season
  15. Chapter 10. Meeting My Brother
  16. Chapter 11. Making Mum Cry
  17. Chapter 12. The Apple
  18. Chapter 13. The Spade
  19. Chapter 14. The Shrink
  20. Chapter 15. The Raid
  21. Chapter 16. The Outside World
  22. Chapter 17. A Vision Of Hell
  23. Chapter 18. Music
  24. Chapter 19. Treatment
  25. Chapter 20. Electric Shock Boys
  26. Chapter 21. A Death In The Family
  27. Chapter 22. St William’s
  28. Chapter 23. Hell On Earth
  29. Chapter 24. A Paedophiles’ Sweet Shop
  30. Chapter 25. Race With The Devil
  31. Chapter 26. The Pet Shop
  32. Chapter 27. Justice And Mayhem
  33. Chapter 28. Music, Art And Aston Hall
  34. Epilogue
  35. Acknowledgements
  36. About the Author
  37. Appendix
  38. Plates
  39. Copyright

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