6/30/2023 0 Comments Stuart's life backwards![]() ![]() The average doctor rarely comes into professional contact with a homeless person. Masters' own insights into the torturous process of writing his book and into the results of his own research into the issue of homelessness are similarly to the point and informative. Stuart's rages against “the system” are unsettlingly cogent, his insights into his own plight and those of others are disarmingly frank and at times uproariously funny. ![]() knives.” What emerges is a complex and touching tale of a boy from semirural Cambridgeshire, who battles bravely and successfully with the stigmatisation of a physical disability but who suddenly finds his life shattered by events in his early teens from which he never truly recovers. Telling the story backwards was Stuart's idea-he envisaged a sort of thriller, a page turner that explains who, or what, “murdered” the loving, kind, helpful little boy that he was, replacing him with a “polydrug-addicted-alcoholic Jekyll and Hyde personality with a fondness for. ![]()
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