Orphan Boys - It Takes a Village to Raise a Child

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1976
A01=Phil Mews
Author_Phil Mews
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north east england
nostalgia
orphans
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781786068996
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 262g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 20mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Jul 2018
  • Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: London, GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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1976, the hottest summer for a generation and life was perfect for the two young brothers Philip and Roger. They lived an idyllic life on a farm in the picturesque dales of the north of England.

With their days spent on the farm, playing on Tarzan swings, building dens and swimming outdoors, their perfect existence was plunged into darkness when tragedy struck the family. Within a ten-week period, the boys lost their parents and were left as orphans.

This is the story of Philip and his brother Roger, how their grandparents stepped in to bring them up and how a family and community came together to deal with the consequences that the devastation of death had left behind.

Orphan Boys is not a misery memoir. It is a story full of love, strength and hope - an uplifting tale of a family's survival and how they faced the huge challenges that life threw at them.

Begun on a friend's advice as a cathartic exercise in relieving the pain of the loss of his parents, Orphan Boys is Phil Mews' first book to be published.

Phil Mews has worked in television for eighteen years. Originally from Weardale in the north of England, he now lives in Scotland with his husband and a sock-stealing Jack Russell terrier. He is now writing his first novel.

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