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Have i ever told you about...?
Paperback
Publisher: Andrew Barnes
Published: Sep 26 2026
Pages: 214
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.49 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Have I Ever Told You About...? is a memoir about childhood, friendship, trouble, and the people who leave their mark on us.
It begins with a boy leaving Bristol for Australia as a Ten Pound Pom, growing up through migrant hostels, poverty, violent schools and experiences that would stay buried for decades. Back in England came adolescence in Somerset, friendships, pubs, scrapes, schemes and a cast of unforgettable characters who became part of the fabric of his life.
The road eventually led through crime and prison, but prison was not the end of the story. Education, work, family and later fostering forced Andrew Barnes to look again at the past he had spent years trying to outrun. In understanding damaged children, he began to understand something of the damaged child he had once been.
Told with humour, affection and without pretending the past was something it wasn't, this is not a story about making excuses or rewriting history. It is about friendship, loss, mistakes, second chances, family, and the strange way a life that once seemed to be going nowhere can eventually make sense.
Extraordinary people made ordinary life unforgettable.
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