The book is a collection of short stories that were written in the only way that I could attempt to purvey the day to day life of a childhood that was spent within the grasps of a nightmare existence that is domestic violence. It was never intended to shock, it is merely a factual actual account of the emotions and strategies that I put into place just to cope with the insanity of my situation.

It was after a 'quite by chance' meeting of my former primary school head-teacher, at the age of thirty-five, that I realised with some degree of anger and sadness that there was something something very wrong either with teaching as a profession, or with society as a whole.

“Your family were one of the most loving that I ever come across in forty years of teaching”

This single statement that would have had the vast majority of us smiling for a fortnight, had hit me with more ferocity than any blow I had received in the ring or from my father. It was at that moment I realised the wall of silence that had surrounded my terrible and turbulent formative years in this world, would need to be shared with the very same people who had failed us so miserably. It seemed almost inconceivable that a family of four children, all at the same school, could be lost in the system for the whole of their childhood.

I hope you support this project

Stephen Harvey

• At Risk - The Full Story
• B0031ESXVK
• B00OTSKNPG
• Unbroken Bond
• Never to Return: The Harrowing Story of a Stolen Childhood