{"product_id":"fatherless-book-phil-barber-9780992899400","title":"Fatherless","description":"When his Polish ex-serviceman father denies paternity, after an extra-marital affair, the infant Phil is left with his poverty stricken mother in a 1950s West Yorkshire mill town. Overwhelmed by Victorian levels of hardship, abandonment and repeated pregnancies Annie develops catastrophic mental health problems. She releases the infant Phil to a distant orphanage. More moves follow each confusing separation 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 1960s orphanages Phil Barber has travelled with love and a wry humour into the dark earth of his tangled roots. Phil's story is a winding river of struggles for freedom and identity. This is not a bleak and sombre tale. Its a search for beauty and belonging among the oceanic pain of feeling exiled from society.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49523219136785,"sku":"GOR006438889","price":12.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53150474141969,"sku":"GOR012136545","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0992899400.jpg?v=1751173091","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/fatherless-book-phil-barber-9780992899400","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}