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Nobody's Son

Name: Nobody's Son
Author: Frank D. Keeling
ISBN: 9781552124994

by Frank D. Keeling

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Overview

This revised edition of Nobody's Son is a shocking expos of family life in England's class society in the 1920s; a tragic but ultimately uplifting story of a child born in the aftermath of World War One.

Raised in an idyllic country environment until age five, the world of young Jack Bunton is suddenly and without warning, changed forever. He grows up during the economic and societal turmoil of England's Great Depression in the care of cruel and indifferent guardians. At age seventeen he escapes by joining the British army. Following the outbreak of World War Two, he is granted forty-eight hours leave and visits an aunt. She breaks a lifelong conspiracy of silence by divulging the identity of his biological parents. His dream of one day finding a long lost mother and father becomes a terrible nightmare when he learns their true identity.

Synopsis

A true story of childhood chaos, adolescent tragedy and adult passion in 1920s England.

About the Author, Frank D. Keeling

Frank D. Keeling was born in Romford, a suburb of London, England. He served in the British army from 1937 to 1949, in the Middle East, Africa and Continental Europe. Keeling immigrated to Canada in 1957, where he became involved in the establishment of Medicare in Saskatchewan. He moved to British Columbia in 1967, where he worked in the field of health care delivery until his retirement in 1980. He started his writing career in 1993.

To contact the author please email him at [email protected].