THE AUTHOR
Carl Bernstein writes
David Tereshchuk is one of the great reporters of our era, covering global con-flicts and the leaders who have initiated them. Now, using skills he’s honed as an investigative journ-alist, he may have found his most important subject yet: the real story of what happened in his own young life. Tereshchuk’s quest for truth, about both his immediate family and the stories he’s covered around the world, resonates through the pages of A Question of Paternity, an exceptional memoir at once moving, shocking, and heroic.”
SUMMARY
David Tereshchuk leapt from a bleak childhood in a small town on the English-Scottish borders to a precocious high-flying career as a TV reporter, first in London, then in New York.
During his years as a journalist, he managed to elicit revealing interviews from everyone from tyrants to the oppressed, but there was one person who always managed to evade his questioning: his mother.
David wanted to know one thing: who his father was, and even after his mother confided to him—but not until he was in his 50s—that she had been raped, aged 15, by a priest, the facts didn't add up.
Alongside his career, the search for his mother’s abuser has haunted him, adding further layers of stress to a life already marked by alcoholism and insecurity.
This is his astonishing story—one that deserves to sit alongside those of Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and David Brinkley.
David Tereshchuk
A Question of Paternity
PUBLISHER EnvelopeBooks
FORMAT Hardback
EXTENT 410 pages
SIZE 203mm x 127mm (8” x 5”)
ISBN 9781915023155
BISAC CODES BIO025000
GENRES Memoir / Mother-and-son / Media
RRP £25.00
PUBLICATION DATE 19 September 2024
CONTACT editor@envelopebooks.co.uk
PR/PUBLICITY Alan Jepson 07535 757740