Skip to main content
PBS logo
 
 

Search - Just a Boy: The True Story of a Stolen Childhood

Just a Boy: The True Story of a Stolen Childhood
Just a Boy The True Story of a Stolen Childhood
Author: Richard McCann
One October night in 1975 Richard, aged five, was alone in the house with his three sisters. It was 3am and their mother hadn't come home yet. The next morning, the police arrived to take the children away. Their mother had become the first victim of a serial killer soon to become known as the 'Yorkshire Ripper'. Passed from one violent home to ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780091898212
ISBN-10: 0091898218
Publication Date: 10/15/2005
Pages: 304
Rating:
  ?

0 stars, based on 0 rating
Publisher: Ebury Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
Members Wishing: 0
Reviews: Member | Amazon | Write a Review
Read All 1 Book Reviews of "Just a Boy The True Story of a Stolen Childhood"

Please Log in to Rate these Book Reviews

babyjulie avatar reviewed Just a Boy: The True Story of a Stolen Childhood on + 336 more book reviews
I read a lot of books of this nature and have seldom been grabbed into a book as much as Mr. McCann managed to do. Richard McCann's mother was the first victim, of more than a dozen victims total, of the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe. I was amazed at how well the book was written being that this is his first work. The story mainly tells about Richard and his older sisters Sonia lives and intersperses sometimes with his two younger sisters, his father, his girlfriends and their children, and other family and friends. It's most definitely worth reading to see how this one man affected the lives of so many, many people. His second book Into The Light is also out and I plan on reading that very soon also.


Genres: