David Profumo

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...THE AUTHOR David Profumo was born in London in 1955. He is a freelance journalist, and has written two novels, 'Sea Music' and 'The Weather in Iceland'. His father was John Profumo, Senior Secretary of State for War, 1960 to 1963, when he was forced to resign from the Macmillan government. 'Bringing the House Down' is his personal memoir and biography of his parents before, during and after the Profumo Affair, an integral part of the book which I'll attempt to summarise now. THE PROFUMO AFFAIR - A BRIEF INTRO John ' Jack' Profumo, 1915 - 2006, was the son of an Italian barrister and Sardinian aristocrat. Handsome, debonair etc he joined the British Army in 1939, and enjoyed a distinguished military career, becoming a brigadier at 30 and MP for Kettering in 1940: the youngest MP during wartime. Having lost his seat in the 1945... Read review

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...tomba. Venga tu dal cielo o dall'inferno, che importa, o Beltà, mostro enorme, pauroso, ingenuo; se il tuo occhio, e sorriso, se il tuo piede, aprono per me la porta d'un Infinito adorato che non ho conosciuto? Da Satana o da Dio, che importa? Angelo o Sirena, che importa se tu - fata dagli occhi vellutati, profumo, luce, mia unica regina - fai l'universo meno orribile e questi istanti meno gravi? Thanx. C Ya Daniele... Read review

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...The Author of this book is called David Pelzer. In David’s case he is the only one out of three worst cases on child abuse in California state history that survived to tell the story of child abuse. The title of the book is “A child called it” In the book “A child called it” we take a look at the kind of life David had living with his mother from the ages of 4 to 12. David’s young life had been a fairly normal one, until he reached the age of four. Then things changed forever. In his true story he gives versions of the true events that took place in his family home. When David was four, his mother unintentionally broke his arm whilst she was in one of her drunken states. David was taken upstairs to bed, but he was put in the top bunk of the bunk beds instead of his usual place on the bottom bunk. The next morning, she told him... Read review

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