The boy in the cellar : trapped for thirteen years then abused by my carers : a shocking true story of survival
Smith, Stephen2019
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Stephen Smith is the boy who did not exist. Born out of wedlock in the early 1960s, Steve's parents - both devout Catholics - had felt so 'shamed' by their son's illegitimate birth that they hid him away from the world by locking him in the cellar - for thirteen years. 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. 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.
Main title:
The boy in the cellar : trapped for thirteen years then abused by my carers : a shocking true story of survival / Stephen Smith with Veronica Clark.
Author:
Imprint:
London : John Blake, 2019.
Collation:
326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9781789461756 (pbk)1789461758 (pbk)9781789461763 (ebook)
Dewey class:
362.7609 SMI362.7609
LC class:
HV751.A6
Language:
English
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BRN:
348442