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BLOODY SOCIAL WORKER IBD

THINKWELL BOOKS UK
12 / 2022
9781739668129
Inglés

Sinopsis

On Monday, 30 November 2020, Richard Wills resigned. Burnt out, unable to take it anymore and with his health shot to pieces, he decided that being a social worker was no longer him.
BLOODY SOCIAL WORKER - mallet and memoir - documents his 32 years on the front line, in âÇÖMadchesterâÇÖ and Oldham, together with his childhood in Cumbria.
This isnâÇÖt a dry, academic splodge of a book though, about processes and policy, but one which illuminates the 'glorious, tragic, funny, and enchanting figures' he came across.
Stumbling into moving taxis, looking after âÇÖSalman RushdieâÇÖsâÇÖ cat, witnessing fights between Mr T (blind) and Mr M (DownâÇÖs syndrome) on the disco floor and in a helicopter, Wills invites you into his former world and simply asks you to look at complex individuals - those who 'perplex and amuse' - with fresh eyes.
âÇÖWills makes your brain tingle and your heart ache as he takes you through the tunnel of societyâÇÖs most serious issues. Yet the process feels like a delicate breeze as he honours the downtrodden. Sharp, informative, and laugh-out-loud in unexpected placesâÇÖááAidan Martin, author of Euphoric Recall
âÇÖA fascinating peek into the world of social work. Emotional, honest and sometimes brutal, but with wonderful, deft touches of humourâÇÖ Mick Ferry, comedian / purveyor of lugubrious surrealism

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