The Emigrant

This is the moving story of George, his years in China from his birth in 1934 up to 1957 and his quest to be reunited with his family whom he had not seen for many years. He drifted from one place to another and his unusual upbringing with distant relatives, strangers, and the time he spent alone in a charity run boarding school, taught him that he had to fight to survive. The images of what he saw would haunt him for the rest of his life but nothing could prepare him for the upheaval and upset ahead, when his daring plan to escape from the wars being raged around him to freedom, became reality. Blinded by the passion of youth and his need to be wanted, to belong and be loved, his miraculous journey to find his family meant he had to grow up fast and leave behind the people who had meant so much to him, including his first love. This is my story and I hope that readers will forgive me for some of the language used but it was necessary in order to express the iniquity of the events that occurred.