Beating the odds : from shocking childhood abuse to the embrace of a loving family, one man's true story of courage and redemption
Connolly, Paul, 1962-2014
Book
As Paul Connolly struggled to leave behind his painful, humiliating childhood in the notorious St Leonard's children's home, the ghosts of his past would not let go. The paedophiles and sadists had damaged so many kids. Some had died from suicide or heroin. Others, like Paul, had emerged, battered and illiterate, to try to find a place in the world. When a fall from a roof shattered his boxing ambitions, he survived in a brutal underworld of routine violence before eventually building a career as a celebrity fitness trainer, working with the stars of fashion and film. This book tells his story.
Main title:
Beating the odds : from shocking childhood abuse to the embrace of a loving family, one man's true story of courage and redemption / Paul Connolly with Ian Shircore.
Author:
Connolly, Paul, 1962-, authorShircore, Ian, author
Imprint:
London : John Blake, 2014.London : John Blake, 2014.
Collation:
x, 212 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9781782199830 (pbk)
Dewey class:
362.76092362.76092 CON362.76092CON
Local class:
362.76092 CON
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1572437