After reading about her horrible childhood and then her time as a homeless person I would have liked more detail as to where she ended up and exactly how she ended up there. Not blaming anyone for what happened to her, in my opinion, shows extremely strong character and loyalty, which is amazing considering what horrid things she went through. Yes,’ she said, pulling the belt of her dressing gown tighter and knocking back the last of her drink.

I try to keep my distance from the hottest grump I've ever seen and ignore what it felt like curled against his broad, muscled chest. Kathy was only nineteen when she fell pregnant with me, and neither she nor her married lover knew what they were going to do. Author Anne Kim skillfully weaves heart-rending stories of young people navigating early adulthood alone, in communities where poverty is endemic and opportunities almost nonexistent. It is written in a way that makes you feel like she is sitting right next to you, whispering the words in your ear, telling you, in full and amazingly deep detail, exactly what happened in her life and her emotions through the struggles and good times.

I know they’re all thinking the same thing: thinking that I’m the troublemaker; wishing I wasn’t there; that Daddy wouldn’t shout and argue half as much if I wasn’t, that they could watch TV in peace. As a journalist he has written for the Daily Mail and The Times, and currently works for the Mail on Sunday. Many readers will say DNF, but I prefer to use the term abandoned, because that’s what I do: I abandon them.

Kathy lived at home with her and Mummy’s parents in Ireland, but I was born in England, on one of the beds in the long back bedroom in Mummy’s flat. This is one of Gallico's best works, making a perfect companion to his more famous Thomasina and telling of a boy transposed into the body of a cat by accident. Mummy told me that much one night after my uncle had stormed off to bed following one of their drunken arguments. Also, I felt like I was reading my brother and, as I was living through it, I did not want to be reading about all that negativity.Illustrated with 180 photographs, Abandoned Ireland provides a fascinating pictorial exploration of the little-known corners of this enchanting land.

Maybe she believed he would leave his wife and his ‘empty-shell’ marriage, as I was later told it was, and come over to take care of her and her baby in London. I know a lot of fans have been clamoring for the next books and it’s been moving at a molasses pace.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. My name is Matt and I’m a ‘solo’ Urban Explorer (meaning I visit abandoned places completely alone). Failed by a second mother figure, she moved into her own home aged 18 and went on to have four children. During the pandemic and armed with an iPhone, Sacha manages to capture both the beauty and sadness of these once loved but now discarded dwellings. Monica Allan's legal victory set a precedent and has opened the floodgates for others to claim in her wake.