Being Billy

Author: Phil Earle

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Price : 21.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780141331355
Publisher : Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint : Puffin Books
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Weight (g) : 0.184
Publication date : 01 January 2011
Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 17mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Faces flashed before my eyes. And for every face there was a time that they had let me down. Each punch that landed was revenge, my chance to tell them I hadn't forgotten what they did. Eight years in a care home makes Billy Finn a professional lifer. And Billy's angry - with the system, the social workers, and the mother that gave him away.

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Phil Earle was born, raised and schooled in Hull. His first job was as a care worker in a children's home, an experience that influenced the ideas behind Being Billy. He then trained as a drama therapist and worked in a therapeutic community in south London, caring for traumatized and abused adolescents. After a couple of years in the care sector, Phil chose the more sedate lifestyle of a bookseller, and now works in children's publishing. Phil lives in south-east London with his wife and children, but Hull will always be home.

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