What if you couldn't be there for your child? It's a fear that all parents have. And it's a frightening image that can emotionally scar parents who've been prematurely separated from their children. But what if you were taken from your child, rather than the other way around? That's precisely the journey that Patrick Collins stumbles through in this story, suddently alone and at the mercy of a social worker and an unkind grandfather when his mother is killed in a car accident. With his father off in Germany fighting WWII, Patrick is parentless. It's a story of redemption, release, and righting of wrongs. Get it and read it. But beware, you will need a box of tissues with this one.