Robert Smith Literary agency » Les Cummings https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 04 Feb 2025 18:58:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Forgotten: An abusive children’s home. A childhood destroyed https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/611/ https://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/authors/611/#comments Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:35:44 +0000 http://www.robertsmithliteraryagency.com/?p=611 Les Cummings spent many years of his childhood in a local authority children’s home.  Conditions were harsh, with terrifying violence meted out by some of the staff.  Sent to live with foster parents for nearly three horrendous years, he was beaten, starved and sexually abused.  He spent many days at a time locked in a […]

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