Gypsy Boy: My Life in the Secret World of the Romany Gypsies

Walsh, Mikey

ISBN 10: 0312622082 / ISBN 13: 9780312622084

Published by Thomas Dunne Books; St. Martin's Press, 2012

About this Item

First edition hardcover in black paper covered boards with red spine title. Unclipped photo-illustrated dust jacket in new mylar has flaps taped to book. Faint 2012 stamp to head of page block, no names, tears or soil in text. Adult material.

Seller Inventory # 50336

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gypsy Boy: My Life in the Secret World of the Romany Gypsies
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books; St. Martin's Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312622082
• ISBN 13: 9780312622084
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • ADULT FICTION

About this title

Synopsis

An Eye-Opening Memoir of Growing Up Gypsy

Mikey Walsh was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They live in a secluded 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.

This is something Mikey knows only too well.

Growing up, he didn't go to school, he seldom mixed with non-Gypsies, and the caravan became his world. It was a rich and unusual upbringing, but although Mikey inherited a vibrant and loyal culture his family's legacy was bittersweet, with a hidden history of violence and grief. Eventually Mikey was forced to make an agonizing decision--to stay and keep secrets, or escape and find somewhere to belong.

Gypsy Boy shows, for the first time, what life is really like among the Romany Gypsies. A surprise #1 bestseller in Great Britain, this is a one-of-a-kind memoir of a little-seen world, one both fascinating and heartbreaking.

About the Author

Mikey Walsh left the Gypsy community and moved to London. It is the longest he's ever stayed in one place. He taught himself to read and write and now works at a primary school, where he works as a teaching aid, and also picks up the formal education he missed out on as a child.