
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Little Big Man: An Autobiography
About this book
The one where mum and Elvis lived unhappily ever after in our little Stoke Newington Victorian townhouse.
In this honest and gripping memoir, actor Stanley J. Browne reflects on a childhood and adolescence torn apart by his mother's mental disorder.
Stanley J. Browne is an actor, and he has been an actor all his life. Born to a Jamaican mother in a London suburb, he began rehearsing for the role of survivor from an early age. From birth he knew nothing but a home filled with love and the vibrancy of a Caribbean culture, but this changes when his mother is diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Stanley adopts the mantle of 'man of the house' as he is forced to scavenge for food and miss school, with his two sisters, to care for his baby brother. His life is further fragmented as they yo-yo in and out of the care system and Stanley must face the reality of being separated from his siblings.
An intelligent and sensitive child, Stanley descends into a life of crime and drug abuse. During his time spent in various young offender's institutions and prisons he battles with addiction and slowly begins to turn his life around.
Set against a backdrop of 1970s poverty, racism and hardship, Little Big Man is a powerful story of generational trauma and one man's determination to heal the wounds of the past. Most of all, it is a book about the universal desire for love, belonging and the search to find an authentic voice through the redemptive power of creativity and recovery.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- A letter to the reader
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: Nine Nights
- Chapter 2: Hackney
- Chapter 3: Blues
- Chapter 4: Back Ah Yard
- Chapter 5: The Globe
- Chapter 6: Sesame Street
- Chapter 7: Cowboys and Indians
- Chapter 8: The World Turns Upside Down
- Chapter 9: Elvis
- Chapter 10: Jah! Rastafari!
- Chapter 11: The Town Hall
- Chapter 12: Belly Bump
- Chapter 13: Therapy
- Chapter 14: Chaos Rains!
- Chapter 15: Nottingham
- Chapter 16: Sex, Drugs and Reggae Music
- Chapter 17: The Black Waltons
- Chapter 18: The Prodigal Son
- Chapter 19: Ragamuffin Soldier
- Chapter 20: Keep Coming Black
- Chapter 21: Road-Man-Dem
- Chapter 22: Secrets and Lies
- Chapter 23: Nicked
- Chapter 24: Her Majesty’s Pleasure
- Chapter 25: “Fix My Mum Man!”
- Chapter 26: Zero
- Chapter 27: Bucky
- Chapter 28: The White Lady
- Chapter 29: Skag Head
- Chapter 30: VO: Visiting Order
- Chapter 31: The Oscars
- Chapter 32: “If Your Name’s Not Down, You’re Not Coming In.”
- Chapter 33: Flesh and Blood
- Chapter 34: Brotherman
- Chapter 35: Denial Is Not A River in Egypt
- Chapter 36: Thespian
- Chapter 37: Ashes to Ashes
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Picture Section