Status Updates From Fatherless: A Memoir

An amazing memoir which really made me think and feel. One of those books which stays with you long after you've finished reading it.

An excellent memoir, very moving, detailed, interesting. Perfectly captures all the circumstances he lived through. I saw a link for a radio interview with Phil Barber and listened to it. He said he had kept every letter e.g. From his mum, his brother, aunties etc and used these to help paint an accurate picture of the times. He also visited the Barnardos archives.

An excellent memoir, very moving, detailed, interesting. Perfectly captures all the circumstances he lived through. I saw a link for a radio interview with Phil Barber and listened to it. He said he had kept every letter e.g. From his mum, his brother, aunties etc and used these to help paint an accurate picture of the times. He also visited the Barnardos archives.

An excellent memoir, very moving, detailed, interesting. Perfectly captures all the circumstances he lived through. I saw a link for a radio interview with Phil Barber and listened to it. He said he had kept every letter e.g. From his mum, his brother, aunties etc and used these to help paint an accurate picture of the times. He also visited the Barnardos archives.

An excellent memoir, very moving, detailed, interesting. Perfectly captures all the circumstances he lived through. I saw a link for a radio interview with Phil Barber and listened to it. He said he had kept every letter e.g. From his mum, his brother, aunties etc and used these to help paint an accurate picture of the times. He also visited the Barnardos archives.

An excellent memoir, very moving, detailed, interesting. Perfectly captures all the circumstances he lived through. I saw a link for a radio interview with Phil Barber and listened to it. He said he had kept every letter e.g. From his mum, his brother, aunties etc and used these to help paint an accurate picture of the times. He also visited the Barnardos archives.

An excellent memoir, very moving, detailed, interesting. Perfectly captures all the circumstances he lived through. I saw a link for a radio interview with Phil Barber and listened to it. He said he had kept every letter e.g. From his mum, his brother, aunties etc and used these to help paint an accurate picture of the times. He also visited the Barnardos archives.

An excellent memoir, very moving, detailed, interesting. Perfectly captures all the circumstances he lived through. I saw a link for a radio interview with Phil Barber and listened to it. He said he had kept every letter e.g. From his mum, his brother, aunties etc and used these to help paint an accurate picture of the times. He also visited the Barnardos archives.

An excellent memoir, very moving, detailed, interesting. Perfectly captures all the circumstances he lived through. I saw a link for a radio interview with Phil Barber and listened to it. He said he had kept every letter e.g. From his mum, his brother, aunties etc and used these to help paint an accurate picture of the times. He also visited the Barnardos archives.

An excellent memoir, very moving, detailed, interesting. Perfectly captures all the circumstances he lived through. I saw a link for a radio interview with Phil Barber and listened to it. He said he had kept every letter e.g. From his mum, his brother, aunties etc and used these to help paint an accurate picture of the times. He also visited the Barnardos archives.

An excellent memoir, very moving, detailed, interesting. Perfectly captures all the circumstances he lived through.

Very accurate and well presented so far.

Memories from a childhood in care. I've read a few Rosie Lewis, Cathy Glass and Maggie Hartley fostering memoirs and really enjoy those-the names and locations are changed. In this book, everything is named, the places he grew up in are known to me, indeed, in my own locality. Similar ages, not years and years ago. How different our upbringings are. How terribly sad young people have to go through this.

Such sad beginnings for him. Tossed about. Read a few Rosie Lewis, Cathy Glass and Maggie Hartley fostering memoirs and really enjoy those-the names and locations are changed. In this book, everything is named, the places he grew up in are known to me, indeed, in my own locality. Similar ages, not years and years ago. How different our upbringings are. How terribly sad young people have to go through this.

Taken to another Barbados home in Kidderminster. Had not been told they were having to move/go there or why.

Must have been born 1956, close to mine and my sister's ages.

Who could this have been? Was Russ Conway from over here? Yes, Russ Conway was born in Bristol-it could have been him.

He and his two brothers had been taken into care when he was just two years old. Foster parents in Yorkshire-but they returned them. Some months at temporary nurseries in Dewsbury and Huddersfield. My goodness! His mother had attempted suicide by gassing herself. This from an actual Barnardos intake report.

He and his two brothers had been taken into care when he was just two years old. Foster parents in Yorkshire-but they returned them. Some months at temporary nurseries in Dewsbury and Huddersfield.