A small blue softback book of 148 pages in 8 chapters, with a pictue of the author as a young child in Dr Barnardo's Homes on the front cover, and on the back the publisher's note as follows: The fifth of a series of Barnardo Biographies published by Badgerwood Publications LLP, this is the story of a Barnardo Boy told in studied depth. A grossly fragmented childhood in Barnardo's is introduced initially through the sad experience of finding his mother in his middle age, and further presented by vivid accounts of foster homes and cultured pictures of a number of institutional 'stately' Barnardo Homes through which he passed. A Barnardo apprenticeship as a 'printer's devil' culminates in a stage of powerful reflection as the disturbing facts of his origins begin to be known to him. The deep spirituality which emerges takes him through the study of theology to years of compassionate missionary service in South America, told with colour. It is at the end of his later period of academic life that the impact of his disturbed childhood becomes most painfully revealed.

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