The Henry Experiment - Sophie Radice

When Anna finds a little barefoot boy in a yellow mac on Hampstead Heath, she offers to walk him home. Expecting gratitude from his parents, she is surprised to be met with hostility.So begins an escalating battle of wills between Henry's academic father who believes that today's children are bubble-wrapped and that boys must be trained for physical freedom and splendour, and maternal Anna who becomes increasingly worried by Henry's plight as his trials begin. Anna, who was always a bit over-protective with her own, now grown-up children, fears for Henry and keeps a watchful eye on him.