{"product_id":"9780992899400","title":"Fatherless: A memoir","description":"When his Polish ex-serviceman father denies paternity, after an extra-marital affair, the infant Phil is left with his poverty stricken mother in a 1950s West Yorkshire mill town. Overwhelmed by Victorian levels of hardship, abandonment and repeated pregnancies Annie develops catastrophic mental health problems. She releases the infant Phil to a distant orphanage. More moves follow each confusing separation take their toll on this spirited, imaginative boy who - at every turn - feels violently cast off and set adrift.\u003cp\u003eIn this memoir of life under the roof of 1960s orphanages Phil Barber has travelled with love and a wry humour into the dark earth of his tangled roots. Phil's story is a winding river of struggles for freedom and identity. This is not a bleak and sombre tale. Its a search for beauty and belonging among the oceanic pain of feeling exiled from society.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hallow Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50062140866800,"sku":"9780992899400","price":21.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780992899400_p0.jpg?v=1784738922","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780992899400","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}