A happy, stable, normal childhood and family life should have been
mapped out for the three brothers... Adrian was born in Nairobi, Kenya,
in September 1948, having two elder brothers--Neil, four; and Justin,
two. Disputes, infidelities and lack of love by their parents caused the
three brothers much pain and suffering. Against his wife's wishes, their
father moved the family to a small farm he bought in the Nyeri Region.
They suffered two violent attacks by Mau Mau warriors, in which eight
people and two dogs were massacred. The family moved to Mombasa, then
their father left for England, never came back, forced his wife to send
the three brothers to him in England and she abandoned them forever to
their fate. Then their father rejected and abandoned them forever and
they spent time in dreadful orphanages. Their terribly unhappy childhood
affected each one in different ways. After a long separation from his
brothers, Adrian was reunited with them on some occasions but lost both
of them, Neil to suicide and Justin to a tragic heart attack. These
losses nearly destroyed Adrian, but after many twists and turns, he
managed to survive and overcome to a certain extent all the unhappiness
and tragedy, and make a new, happy and serene life for himself with his
own family.
This family drama covers important themes, such as lack of love,
rejection and abandonment by parents, catastrophic impacts on their
children, unhappy childhood and misery of orphanage life, sordid sexual
abuse, difficulties in adoption, lack of self-esteem, guilt complexes,
severe depression, tragic losses of loved ones through desperate suicide
and sudden, totally unexpected heart attack, with a message of hope,
positivity and light that it is possible for a deeply injured and
scarred person to cope with, survive and somehow overcome an unhappy
childhood, sexual abuse by perverts and the tragic loss of loved ones
and to forgive parents for the wrong, injustice, pain and suffering they
have caused.
