TheOrator.Press Book Page: Our New Series ‘Strictly By The Bookish!’ Begins This Month. A Little Look At Books And The Bookish. First Is Derek Owusu’s ‘Borderline Fiction’ Exposing The Childcare System. Also ‘Up The Youth Club: A Love Letter To Youth Centers’ By Emma Warren Who Laments Their Disappearance. Plus There’s Much More! July 2026

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We Interview Our Aforementioned Pioneering Veteran Social Worker of Virtually Years In The Garden of The Dolphin Pub Sydenham On A Sunny July Evening. [The Gardens Are Stylish, Spacious And Seamless In Terms of The Design Flow From The Square Shaped/Oblong Shaped Bar In The Middle And The Inviting Umbrelled Concrete Terrace At The Front To This Large, Lush, Green Oasis At The Back. It’s Simple But Pentiful Blocks of Well Manicured Hedges, Cosy, Friendly, And With Efficient Service. Well Stocked With Great & Varied Beverage Options. Good Atmosphere. Local Enough To The Book Club. Perfect For A Chilled Or Serious Conversation. Or A Mixture of Both.]

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Still Working As An In School Social Worker, She Has Lived Experience of The System About Which Derek Owusu Writes, In Borderline Fiction, In Real Life, From The Inside, And On The Side. As Such It Was An Insightful Interview And We Thank Her Once Again For It. She Was Dedicated When She Studied Social Work At Portsmouth University And Still Is. Undergraduates Had To Be 21 In Order To Even Get Onto The Course (Such Was Level of Maturity And Clariy Required, Above And Beyond The Standard Undergraduate Age of 18). In Addition To The Requisite Maturity She Was Also Experienced With Volunteer Insight Having Worked At A YMCA Hostel In Leicester Where A Notable Number of Residents Had Survived The Care System. Her Dissertation (One’s Chosen Research Project, Required In Order To Graduate) Questioned Whether Young People Are Suitably Prepared To Leave The Care System.

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She’s Still Got It! So Clued Up Was She That She A Knowing Yet Relaxed Quality When She Spoke In The Group. We Spoke With Her Afterwards On The Night And In This Interview Shortly Afterwards.

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Our Interviewee’s Husband Is A Civil Servant, A Fellow Book Club Member, A 60 Year Old Recent Stroke Survivor, And Arguably An Ade Edmondson Look-A-Alike. He Has A Dry Sense of Humour And Is A Natural Observer.He’s Doing Well And He Joined Us Too.

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His Wife Was Ahead of Her Time. The Leaving Care Act Was Eventually Passed In 2000.

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TheDolphinSydenham.com – @thedolphin_se26 – YMCAleics.org.uk – TheUniversityofPortsmouth – TheCareLeaversAssociationOnLinkedIn – Stroke.org.uk – Adrian Edmondson Talks To The Guardian About His 2023 Autobiography (Beserker!), How ‘The Young Ones’ Actor Is All Grown Up Now & Has Gone Full Circle, And Why He Leaves It To Wife Jennifer Saunders To Tell Her Side of The Story In Her Own Autobiography (Both Can Be Ordered Via www.BooksellerCrow.co.uk)

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A Tough Read, The Book Club Consensus Agreed. But Worth It!

The System!

(Includes The Housing System, The Child Care System, The Education System, The Police System, And The Mental Health System. And All The Resilience And Steps It Takes To Survive It. Or Hold It Accountable!)

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