Keith Lawton: 2 books

Keith Lawton is a victory. A victory over neglect. A victory over torment. A victory over a harrowing and painful past. Born to an alcoholic father and a schizophrenic mother, Keith Lawton did not have a childhood - he had a ticking bomb. His father's death and his mother's illness lit the...

The institutional abuse and neglect of children unlucky enough to enter the UK care system has been recently been described as a "national disgrace" by a UK Government report. The statistics on their own make heart-breaking reading, yet behind every one of them there is an individual tale of abandonment,...