Gary Trew

The Hate Game

Screaming in the Silence - A Memoir

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner - 2025 Independent Author Awards (Memoir & Historical Nonfiction) Runner-Up - 2025 London Book Festival (Memoir) Winner - 2024 Literary Titan Book Award They shoved his head into the toilet-a baptism of dirty water and urine. They drew a Star of David on his forehead. And that was just another day at school. Set against the brutal corridors of 1970s England, The Hate Game: Screaming in the Silence is a raw, darkly funny memoir of trauma, resilience, and reluctant transformation. Gary Trew didn't grow up in a warzone, but Knoll Boys School came close. There, violence was routine, bullying was institutional, and anti-Semitic torment was just part of the curriculum. Teachers turned a blind eye. Survival meant silence. But beyond the school gates? Chaos, contradictions-and love. A scripture-quoting mother with a flair for curses. A pipe-smoking father who barely spoke but never stopped caring. A house full of odd rituals, awkward hugs, and flashes of humour in the darkness. Told with searing honesty and wicked wit, The Hate Game is more than a memoir of abuse-it's a story of defiance, emotional survival, and growing up working-class in a country that didn't care. If you loved Educated, A Child Called "It", Angela's Ashes, or The Glass Castle, prepare to meet a voice you won't forget.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gary Trew
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 133mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 366g
• ISBN-13: 9781738245413
• ISBN-10: 1738245411
• Artikelnr.: 71587910

Autorenporträt

Gary Trew is a British-born author now living in Canada, known to friends and colleagues as "that funny British guy" thanks to his dry wit and enduring accent. A former UK police officer and Canadian child protection social worker, he holds degrees in Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Social Work. His writing blends dark humour with deep empathy-shaped by years investigating abuse, raising four spirited daughters, and surviving a 1970s education system that resembled a war zone. He loves Marmite, Cadbury's, and Brighton & Hove Albion (though not always in that order).Gary has also published humorous crime fiction books under the pen name of Denny Darke.