Customer Reviews
highly recommended - By: J. WALKER, 02 Apr 2008 
Highly recommended biography by Tom Wilson (brother of Jockey Wilson, former darts champion).
Tom's book is a very sad sometimes heartbreaking life story dealing with severe family problems at home in his early years leading to him being put
into care at the age of 3. He was abused terribly by one of the carers at the home & kept it secret for many years. His secret trauma led to lots of problems in his teenage years & for many years after.
It is with relief to the reader that Tom has found some inner peace in later life by very bravely helping the courts to prosecute this man for the abuse of several children who suffered at the evil hands of David Murphy.
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Another powerful memoir but the ghostwriter helped - By: Born Again Bookworm, 14 Nov 2007 Considering the book spans half a century of someone's life Tears at Bedtime is short & sweet but thanks in part to Andrew Croft's ghostwriting, you can either speed-read the book like a novel or take your time to reallly appreciate the journey Tom Wilson has undertaken.
I chose the latter & finished reading it in a week. It's brutallly honest about the rift (or differences in coping) between siblings in the same care situation which would come back to haunt the brothers later in life & the failures at marriage & perceived failures at parenting following the systematic abuse Wilson suffered as a child.
Wilson is also honest about being no angel after leaving care & the difficulties he faced in attempting to live a normal life & eventuallly fight for, & get, some degree of justice much later & in being honest, gives a more rounded account of survival by keeping it in a single book, unlike Tell Me Why Mummy by David Thomas. I bought this at the same time as Unloved by Peter Roche which has also hit paperback, both are worth picking up in a bundle deal if you're a fast reader of average-length paperbacks.
