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The Boy Who Wouldn't LeaveA gritty memoir of escape, obsession, and the terrifying cost of winning back your own life. Born into the socio-political upheaval of the Miners' Strike, Lee's childhood quickly becomes a series of forced displacements, finally landing his family on a decaying council estate in 1990s Manchester. While Lee's own home offers a fragile stability, his world is shattered by the arrival of Simon. Simon is a child of profound neglect and chaos, and he chooses Lee as his lifeline. What begins as neighbourly curiosity spirals into a terrifying psychological prison. Simon is an ""unwanted shadow"" who constantly monitors Lee, turning their home into a space of ""surveillance"". Lee soon discovers the disturbing truth: Simon is surviving in squalor and enduring unspeakable conditions no child should face. Trapped and isolated, Lee is forced into a devastating moral dilemma: when does compassion give way to self-preservation? The pressure mounts until a final act of desperate manipulation forces Lee to confront the violence and instability he has so long tried to hide from. Lee must choose-break the ultimate code of silence or watch his world be destroyed. The Boy Who Wouldn't Leave is a powerful, candid account of a child who found the courage to save himself. But even after the definitive break, the author realises that the scars of obsession run deep, and some shadows never truly fade. For anyone who has ever felt trapped, and for the strength it takes to find your own way out.

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