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  • The Cornflake Kid

  • By: Mark Riddell
  • Narrated by: Mark Riddell
  • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
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Mark Riddell spent his adolescence in local authority care in Scotland. Born into a Scottish tenement flat, he is forced with the rest of his family to leave his father and watch the slow death of his mother. For the remainder of his early years, his life is characterized by care from half committed relatives, occasional returns to his drunken father's care, and eventually taken into the Scottish care system.

Only the memory of his mother provides Mark with any lodestone to direct his life. Being in care brings further separation and rejection from his brothers and the onset of glue sniffing, but also the discovery of an inner strength, which provides his salvation. Not all is despair and the glue-induced hallucinations and his love for music gives him the escape he so badly needed.

Mark survives the care system. On the path of self-discovery he finds the real Mark Riddell. He ends up as an extra on Rambo III and becomes a drinking companion of Sylvester Stallone.
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Beware the altruistic ice cream giver

Stimulating and thought provoking for anyone in the role of carer for you people, so that’s most of you out there. Whether it’s that unknown boy at a bus stop, or your own young person at home - have a smile for them, be supportive and encouraging and be ready to forgive the odd hiccup and the world will be a better place. So, really just Be More Mark. (confession time, I know the author but he’s way too cheap to be paying for this review, so it’s straight up and unbiased)

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