Dimensions
129 x 198 x 23mm
Beaten from an early age by his abusive� father� John struggled to fit in at school where his poverty marked him out. When� aged 13� his father brought a charge against him in order to remove him from the family home� John found himself in Juvenile Court - from here he was sent to the notorious St. Vincent's school� run by a group of Catholic Irish Brothers.
Beatings and abuse were a part of daily life - both from John's fellow pupils� but also from the brothers� all of which was overseen by the sadistic headmaster� Brother De Montfort. Tormented physically and sexually by one boy in particular� and by the Brothers in general� John quickly learnt to survive but at the cost of the loss of his childhood.
PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME GO� tells in heart-rending detail the day-to-day lives of John and the other boys - the beatings� the weapons fashioned from toilet chains and stones� the loneliness - but we also see the development of John's love of reading� his growing friendship with Father Delaney and his best friend� Bernard� and his unstinting love for his mother whom he feared was suffering at the hands of his violent father.
A painfully� brutally honest account� PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME GO is also an example of the resilience of the human spirit as it documents how John learnt to survive and come through his ordeal.