A violent, abusive father just back from the war. A mother who neglected and then abandoned her children. The squalor of post-war Birmingham. In and out of children’s homes. A childhood etched with grinding poverty, hunger and cold, turmoil and violence. A boy who grew up tongue-tied and dyslexic, a truant from school, branded a failure by his teachers.

This is the story of how God took hold of one person’s life and turned it around.