A KNOCK ON THE DOOR
By Rob Parsons
William Collins. 368 pages. £16.99
ISBN 978 0 008 708 665
A homeless man knocked on the door of a Cardiff couple one Christmas Eve some 50 years ago. He was duly welcomed in and stayed the night.
Ronnie Lockwood had tracked down Rob and Dianne Parsons whom he remembered from youth meetings at church. The young couple were just a few years into married life and soon set about trying to find a suitable shelter for their visitor, the victim of a broken care system after being abandoned by his parents at an early age.
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