I Just Wanted to Be Loved
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I Just Wanted to Be Loved

A boy eager to please. The man who destroyed his childhood. The love that overcame it.

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eBook - ePub

I Just Wanted to Be Loved

A boy eager to please. The man who destroyed his childhood. The love that overcame it.

About this book

The author of the bestselling Please Daddy No reveals more harrowing experiences of his neglected childhood.

Having survived the terrible abuse at the hands of his stepfather, Stuart has to reach within himself again to live through the degradation of prison. He is released back into the world without any support or counselling from the authorities.

The child abuse and numerous court cases had almost destroyed him, and Stuart became reliant on drugs and alcohol. With his life spiralling out of control, Stuart attempts suicide a number of times. The last try leaving the doctors that resuscitated him incredulous he had survived.

At the point of no-return, Stuart was sent to an hospital in the Scottish highlands to fight the demons that assailed him and rebuild his life. This is the remarkable story of his fight to be his own man.

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Publisher
HarperElement
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780007902736
eBook ISBN
9780007319565

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Chapter One - Growing Up In Ashton-Under-Lyne
  6. Chapter Two - Trying to Make A Life for Myself
  7. Chapter Three - Falling Apart
  8. Chapter Four - Being Inside
  9. Chapter Five - Release from Strangeways
  10. Chapter Six - Party at the Pub
  11. Chapter Seven - Life on the Outside
  12. Chapter Eight - Self-Medication
  13. Chapter Nine - The First Steps
  14. Chapter Ten - The Babysitter
  15. Chapter Eleven - Meeting My Real Dad
  16. Chapter Twelve - Burnt House Farm
  17. Chapter Thirteen - Waiting to Die
  18. Chapter Fourteen - Living with Geoff and Sue
  19. Chapter Fifteen - Housecleaning the Soul
  20. Chapter Sixteen - The Pity Party
  21. Chapter Seventeen - Family Therapy
  22. Chapter Eighteen - Strangeways in the Dock
  23. Chapter Nineteen - Learning to Understand the Past
  24. Chapter Twenty - Under Pressure
  25. Chapter Twenty-one - Please, Daddy, No
  26. Chapter Twenty-two - Pushed to the Limit
  27. Chapter Twenty-three - Crying on Live TV
  28. Chapter Twenty-four - Losing My Surrogate Dad
  29. Chapter Twenty-five - Staying Clean
  30. Acknowledgements
  31. Copyright
  32. About the Publisher

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