Serpent Child
Riley, Pat Serpent Child is the autobiography of Patricia Riley. It describes the life of a child of seperated parents in post war Britain at a time when children were still 'seen but not heard' and when even for married parents children were preferably seen somewhere else.Many children were hurried off to boarding schools, even at a very tender age, and, if they were noticed at all, children could become pawns in harmful, even dangerous parental war gam...