The nipper
Subtitle: the heartbreaking true story of a little boy and his violent childhood in working-class Dundee
By: Charlie Mitchell
Publisher: HarperElement
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9780007292592
Subjects: Adult child abuse victims; Adult children of alcoholics; Social conditions; Rehabilitation; Fathers and sons; Biography; Childhood and youth
Description: Charlie lives with Jock, his violent, disturbed, alcoholic father in a Dundee tenement. Money is scarce, and Jocks love of vodka means that Charlie bears the brunt of his abuse. Often too bruised to go to school, Charlie lives in constant fear of Jocks next outburst... Somehow Charlie escaped from the everyday struggle for survival. His dog Bonnie wasnt so lucky. Charlies way out came in the form of a beautiful young woman who became the love of his life and his saviour.