THE FORGOTTEN CHILD

Based on a true story The Forgotten Child is a heart-breaking memoir of an abandoned newborn baby left to die his tempestuous upbringing and how he came through the other side.It’s a freezing winter’s night in 1954. A baby boy a few hours old is left by his mother wrapped in nothing but two sheets of newspaper and hidden amongst the undergrowth by a canal bank. An hour later a late-shift postman is walking wearily home when he hears a faint cry. He finds the newspaper parcel and discovers the newborn white-cold and whimpering inside.After being rushed to hospital and against all odds the baby survives. He’s baptised by the hospital chaplain as Richard.Everything feels as though it’s looking up; Richard is put into local authority care and regains his health. However after nearly five blissful years in a rural care home filled with loving friends it soon unfolds that his turbulent start in life is only the beginning…Based on a devastating true story this inspirational memoir follows Richard’s traumatic birth abusive childhood and search for the truth.