Denis Ratcliffe

Second Chances Denis Ratcliffe

Second Chances is a notable addition to the literature of childhood. Ratcliffe's gripping and authentic account describes the pain of an unhappy childhood and life in an industrial housing development in Swansea, during and after the war. It is a memoir about a troubled child who suffers too much at the hands of the Luftwaffe, priest teachers, non-conformist neighbors, school-yard bullies, and his mother. The book won the Welsh Arts Council Award for Disabled Writers 1994.