(Paperback)

Richard McCann's account of his childhood became a massive UK bestseller.

The Boy Grows Up is an account of how Richard used the success of Just A Boy to try and save his sister, and of his attempts to make sense of his past whilst learning more about the effects of traumatic childhoods and loss.

(Paperback)

One October night in 1975 Richard, aged five, was alone in the house with his three sisters. As the salacious headlines multiplied, Richard and his sisters were never able to recover from their mother's murder. Whilst Richard tried to handle the terror of his violent upbringing, his sister struggled to deal with memories of sexual abuse.