In this harrowing real-life story, Joe McDermott relates his earliest memories of the childhood he spent in Clonakilty, Ireland: memories of pain, loneliness and suffering at the hands of his mam and family, and above all, the memory of his constant search for love.Escaping the binds of his hometown, he finds himself in the exciting but dangerous underbelly of London, but only when he thinks he has found true happiness do his real troubles begin...This is the frank story of a man neglected and abused by the system, and of a person struggling to make his unique voice heard above life's end- less cacophony of dissent.