King's Cross kid - Victor Gregg

Ninety-three-year-old
Victor Gregg has had a rich and fascinating life. King's Cross Kid follows his London childhood from the age of five, when life was so hard
that the Salvation Army arranged for young Vic to be taken to the
Shaftesbury Home for Destitute Children. Home again a year later, the
scallywag years of late childhood began. Then, after the years of street gangs and run-ins with the law, Vic leaves school at fourteen and
his real adventures start, and with them a working-class apprenticeship
in survival. Ending with his enlistment in the army on the day of his
eighteenth birthday, this prequel to the bestselling Rifleman will appeal to the many
readers who were charmed by Victor Gregg's engaging, honest and warm
voice.