'Did my mother really try to kill me?'
That was the question he often asked himself.
Abandoned as a baby, Chris Mackie spent his early years against a background of World War II. His foster-mother was all he had. Losing her was the greatest tragedy of his young life. He sank into deep depression. But no one noticed. He was just a child. And there was a war on. Evacuated four times, he felt like a lost parcel. He might have used this unhappy beginning as an excuse for failure, but at the age of ten he decided that he, and he alone, had the power to shape his future.
In 1944 the unwanted boy came to Heacham, Norfolk, where at last he found some good friends. He spent twenty-three years in the RAF. He ran a National Trust house, became an archaeologist, historian and local media personality. He had a long and happy marriage, raising two successful sons.
Even so, in the back of his mind the questions remained. Who were his parents? Why had his mother left him? What became of her?
The search continued for nearly eighty years...
CHRIS is the moving, funny, heart-warming story of one particular man, who survived a bad beginning and made good.
That was the question he often asked himself.
Abandoned as a baby, Chris Mackie spent his early years against a background of World War II. His foster-mother was all he had. Losing her was the greatest tragedy of his young life. He sank into deep depression. But no one noticed. He was just a child. And there was a war on. Evacuated four times, he felt like a lost parcel. He might have used this unhappy beginning as an excuse for failure, but at the age of ten he decided that he, and he alone, had the power to shape his future.
In 1944 the unwanted boy came to Heacham, Norfolk, where at last he found some good friends. He spent twenty-three years in the RAF. He ran a National Trust house, became an archaeologist, historian and local media personality. He had a long and happy marriage, raising two successful sons.
Even so, in the back of his mind the questions remained. Who were his parents? Why had his mother left him? What became of her?
The search continued for nearly eighty years...
CHRIS is the moving, funny, heart-warming story of one particular man, who survived a bad beginning and made good.
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