Life After Care: From Lost Cause To MBE

In Life After Care, diary entries bring to live Mark’s thoughts and feelings as a teenager struggling to understand how he came to be place in a children’s home. They paint a picture of a young boy struggling to deal with his adolescent feelings of loss and love. On the verge of breakdown, Mark tried to take his own life and he was sectioned under the Mental Health Act. We follow his journey from local authority children’s home to the wards of a crumbling Victorian psychiatric asylum, and then beyond into life after car… This is a heartfelt, true story of how a trouble young man managed to turn his life around. We hear how Mark, mislabelled as a violent boy with no hope, became a successful, happily married family man and a prominent figure in his local community.