‘How wonderful it would be if there was a new set of stories where ignorance, intolerance, misunderstandings, and tragedies no longer dominated events.' This is the impassioned hope of Dorothy Rowe, one of our most revered psychologists and authors, reflecting at 80 on those tragic stories in her own lifetime.This new book is about bastards. Bastards from recent and distant history. Bastards from every stage and every walk of life. The bastards we know, the bastards we know of, the bastards we know nothing about. This book holds those bastards to account.In sustained and eloquent fury, Dorothy Rowe calls upon her years of experience as a psychologist, a citizen and a human being to explain how, from politicians to schoolmasters, the bastards have been winning, and why the struggle against the bastards must go on.
