The Boy in the Cellar

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.Author: Smith, Stephen,author
Contributors: Smith, Stephen,author
Binding: paperback
Number Of Pages: 336
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Languages: English,Published,English,Original Language,Englis
Published/Release Date: 26 Dec 2019
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher/Studio/Brand: John Blake Publishing Ltd
Author/Director/Artist: Stephen Smith
Dimension (cm): 197x127x20 mm
Package Dimension (cm): 21x196x129 mm
Item Weight (g): 249
Package Weight (g): 261