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David had everything. No-one knew the London businessman was born into a world beyond poverty, the son of a rapist father and disturbed mother. Abandoned as a baby, he spent most of his childhood in care and suffered appalling sexual abuse. But no-one knew. But a call from the abuser's wife, 30 years on, proved he was living in a house of cards.
The youngest of five children, David was the son of a drunkard rapist father and a mentally unhinged mother. His father was jailed and his mother deserted the family, leaving five urchins to battle to survive in an inner city Glaswegian slum. Rescued, but separated, David grows up with vague memories of Ma, but no memory of his siblings.
For the next years of his young life David was shipped from pillar to post, until the authorities decided the best place for him and his youngest sister was Quarriers Children's village, where he was delivered into the hands of a paedophile.
Helpless, powerless and alone, it was beaten into David that no-one cared for him and no-one loved him.
Finally David escapes and goes on to build a life of success, determined to bury his secret and never tell anyone what happened to him. Then he receives a phone call from his abuser's wife, and all that he has built comes tumbling down. She asks David to be a character witness on behalf of the man who stole his childhood. Instead David chooses to tell the truth, turning the tide for detectives involved in a massive investigation and changing his own life forever. This is his remarkable story.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: Born Into a World Beyond Poverty
- Chapter 2: Paradise Found
- Chapter 3: Of Long Summer Days and Billy the Ram
- Chapter 4: Paradise Lost
- Chapter 5: ‘Give Your Ma a Kiss’
- Chapter 6: ‘Where’s Yer Whore of a Mother?’
- Chapter 7: A Very Special Place
- Chapter 8: Who Was William Quarrier?
- Chapter 9: The Intimate Stranger
- Chapter 10: I Lose My Shield
- Chapter 11: ‘Are You Clean, David?’
- Chapter 12: The Strange World of the Beast
- Chapter 13: The Beast of the Bell Tower
- Chapter 14: Public Applause, Private Degradation
- Chapter 15: Hope and Awakening
- Chapter 16: Escape
- Chapter 17: Climbing the Ladder
- Chapter 18: A Family of Strangers
- Chapter 19: Return to the Lair of the Beast
- Chapter 20: The First Cracks
- Chapter 21: A Single Tear for Ma
- Chapter 22: Finding Morag
- Chapter 23: Dining With Diana
- Chapter 24: Success on a Plate
- Chapter 25: Three Phone Calls Change My Life
- Chapter 26: Pandora’s Box
- Chapter 27: Telling Irene
- Chapter 28: The Others
- Chapter 29: Accused
- Chapter 30: The Yellow Bird Café
- Chapter 31: Witness for the Prosecution
- Chapter 32: Roll of Shame
- Chapter 33: Falling Apart
- Chapter 34: Finding Da
- Chapter 35: Fighting Back
- Chapter 36: No More Silence
- Help and Support for Victims of Abuse
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright
- About the Publisher