When his father denies paternity, the infant Phil is left with his
poverty stricken mother in a 1950s West Yorkshire mill town. Burned
by loss and desertion Annie's mental state frequently breaks apart.
Before his third birthday she releases Phil to a distant orphanage.
A series of subsequent separations take their toll on this
spirited, imaginative boy who - at every turn - feels violently
cast off and set adrift. In this memoir of life under the roof of a
1960s orphanage Phil Barber has travelled with love and a wry
humour into the dark earth of his tangled roots. Fatherless is an
account of a displaced boy reaching through a lonely childhood and
desperate adolescence to forge his way to manhood. Phil's story is
a winding river of struggles for identity, and a search for beauty
and belonging among the oceanic pain of feeling exiled from
society.
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