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The Idiot Boy (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Idiot Boy (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Bob Turney must be the first 'dunce'-and from the wrong side of the
tracks-to win a debate at the Oxford Union, to have addressed
assembly at Eton College, been welcomed as a guest at No. 10
Downing Street, dined at the House of Lords and whose existing
writings are in regular use at universities in the UK and abroad.
In this captivating and very readable book Bob tells how he
overcame multiple disadvantages: dyslexia, being wrongly
categorised as educationally subnormal, drug and alcohol misuse and
20 years on-and-off as a guest of Her Majesty. It is a compelling
true story of how against all the odds he survived trauma,
misfortune and life 'in the gutter' to become a much respected
family man, community leader, friend of the great and the good,
commentator and public speaker: a prisoner reborn as a probation
officer whose new world took on a fresh and unique life of its
own.'I know Bob Turney, and I know his work, I have witnessed him
hold an audience, spellbound': Dr Deborah Cheney. 'Bob Turney is a
true champion of human rights in the penal system': Baroness Helena
Kennedy QC.'A remarkable man who made a great recovery from the
depths': Lord Longford
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