For my son John and every boy and girl who has to surmount great odds to reach maturity - especially the ones who cannot overcome - and the parents who worry over them.
This is a coming of age story of a working class Irish teenager cast adrift in England. The
trials and tribulations he encounters, with the sometimes bewildering incidents taking the
reader along on the disjointed ride of the main character through his wandering squandering
life. His time in a Borstal institution and his return home. .
A story of an Irish teenager in 1960's cast adrift in England, sentenced to Borstal and