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Ken

Nov 14, 07 - 3:25 PM

Tom Wilson's Book - Tears at Bedtime

Considering the book spans half a century of someone's life Tears at Bedtime is extremely well edited down to average pocket paperback length of nearly 350 pages. Thanks in part to Andrew Croft's ghostwriting, you can either speed-read it like a or take your time to really appreciate the journey Tom Wilson has undertaken.

I chose the latter and finished reading it in a week. It shows that siblings cope with child abuse and care in different ways, however well or badly they've been treated - something which would come back to haunt Wilson and his sporting brother later in life. It's also brutally honest about the failures at marriage and self-perceived failures at parenting following the systematic abuse Wilson suffered as a child in the Scottish care system.

Wilson is also honest about being no angel after leaving care and the difficulties he faced in attempting to live a normal life and eventually fight and eventually get justice of sorts. His book gives a more rounded account of survival by keeping it in a single book, unlike Tell Me Why Mummy by David Thomas. I bought this at the same time as Unloved by Peter Roche which has also hit paperback, both are worth picking up in a bundle deal or for £3.99 in a supermarket if you're a fast reader of average-length paperbacks. I'll post a review of the other book when I've finished it.

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