A Belfast Child: My true story of life and death in the Troubles

Written by:
John Chambers
Narrated by:
Patrick Moy

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
6
Narrator
2
Release Date
September 2020
Duration
7 hours 54 minutes
Summary
John Chambers was brought up on Belfast's notorious Loyalist Glencairn estate, during the height of the Troubles. From an early age he witnessed violence, hatred and horror as Northern Ireland tore itself apart in civil strife. Kneecapping, brutal murders, and even public tarring-and-feathering were simply a fact of life for the children on the estate. He thought he knew which side he was on, but although raised as a Loyalist, he was hiding a troubling secret: that his disappeared mother - whom he'd always been told was dead - was a Roman Catholic, 'the enemy'.

In a memoir of rare power, John explores the dark heart of Northern Irish sectarianism in the seventies and eighties. With searing honesty and native Belfast wit, he describes the light and darkness of his unique childhood, and his teenage journey through mod culture and ultra-Loyalism, before an escape from Belfast to London - where, still haunted by the shadow of his fractured family history - he began a turbulent and hedonistic adulthood.

A Belfast Child is a tale of divided loyalties, dark secrets and the scars left by hatred and violence on a proud city - but also a story of hope, healing and ultimate redemption for a family caught in the rising tide of the Troubles.
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Super: The book takes a fun view of a dramatic history, as it is viewed by a child then teenage boy. Reading goes smooth and entices to read further. It feels fantastic to learn history through a true personal life story. Super: the narrator is a pleasure to hear, just put at 1.25 reading speed.

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