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Gypsy Boy

by Mikey Walsh · 2009

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Mikey was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They live in a closeted community, and little is known about their way of life. After centuries of persecution Gypsies are wary of outsiders and if you choose to leave you can never come back.

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This is something Mikey knows only too well.

Growing up, he rarely went to school, and seldom mixed with non-Gypsies. The caravan and camp were his world.

But although Mikey inherited a vibrant and loyal culture his family's legacy was bittersweet with a hidden history of grief and abuse.

Eventually Mikey was forced to make an agonising decision - to stay and keep secrets, or escape and find somewhere he could truly belong.

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LGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of thisgaygayMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
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abuseabuseMore like thisLess of thisLGBTLGBTMore like thisLess of thisfamilyfamilyMore like thisLess of this
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2000s2000sMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of thisBritishBritishMore like thisLess of thisEuropeEuropeMore like thisLess of thisEuropeanEuropeanMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
medium · 278 pages

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