{"product_id":"the-boy-from-beggerville-peter-jackson-9798254246305","title":"The Boy From Beggerville","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBased on a true story.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Boy from Beggerville\u003c\/b\u003e is a raw Australian novel set from the late 1970s into the 1980s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePJ is an eight-year-old white boy who finds refuge in an Aboriginal community near Katherine, in Australia's Northern Territory - the only place that feels like home - before he is taken and sent 3,600 kilometres south to St Vincent's Boys' Home in Western Sydney. Behind the gates, he learns the truth fast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInside the home, punishment rules. Abuse hides behind prayer, discipline and authority. Crying makes you weak. Talking back gets you belted. Silence becomes armour. Childhood becomes something you bury just to survive the day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut inside Beggerville, PJ finds friends who know that sticking together is their only survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaw, brutal and unmistakably Australian, \u003cb\u003eThe Boy from Beggerville\u003c\/b\u003e is a story of an eight-year-old boy taken from the only home he knows, thrown into a system that mistakes cruelty for discipline, and forced to survive long enough to remember who he is. It is not a soft story. It is survival, abuse, memory, damage, defiance - and the long road back to belonging.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Marist Brothers called it care.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe boys called it Beggerville.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Jackson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798254246305\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.78d","brand":"Peter Jackson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172406403327,"sku":"9798254246305","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-boy-from-beggerville-peter-jackson-9798254246305","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}