Cast No Stones by Kevin Machell ✔✔✔

I found this title in a sidebar ad on Goodreads - it was advertised as a bestseller in the UK and cost only $2.99 on my Kindle, so I downloaded it.  It's the author's memoir of his growing up in a small town in England - his mother, Laura, who was a young woman in the early '40s when she met an American serviceman, Harry, who fathered Kevin, never got to to see him, and returned to America after serving in Europe.  Kevin grew up completely neglected, and ostracized by others in his community, including his grandmother and some of his siblings, most of whom had a different father.  (Laura was quite a girl - and not much of a mother)  He grew up not knowing why he was so despised and didn't know anything about his father.  He was in his early 40s before he even asked his mother directly about his father - he had asked previously and she just set the questions aside, refusing to answer him.

Then he embarked and a long and eventually fruitful search to find his father, and did travel to America to meet him.  Then Laura decided she wanted to meet Harry again,too, so she came to America as well.

The story of Kevin's childhood and his search for his father was most interesting, but after that it's basically just everyday stuff, but a good insight into families torn apart by war, distance, and lack of understanding.

The book is adequately enough written, but certainly could have used an editor, although considering the fact that the author is in his 60s when he writes this, I guess he did pretty well!