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BOY Number 26 is the follow-up to Sunday

Times bestselling author Tommy Rhattigan’s 1963: A

Slice Of Bread And Jam.

Tommy was born in southern Ireland and grew up in crippling poverty in Manchester. 1963:

A Slice Of Bread And Jam documented his close call with the notorious Moors Murderers as a child. Boy Number 26, which is out on Thursday, looks at early life in care, childhood pranks, cruelty and laughter grown from a need to survive his daily torment and stick two fingers up to the system.

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