Boy From the Valleys: My unexpected journey by Luke Evans Groundswell Speaker 2024 2018: walking in the woods

2018: walking in the woods behind the boarding school where her boyfriend has just started as a head teacher

Found family

worked hard and stayed out of trouble … until now

The poems are distinctly unsentimental as she casts the 'eye of an anarchist' over propriety and convention

including being fired from Turner and Hooch and failing to impress Burt Reynolds on Cop and a Half

Boy From the Valleys: My unexpected journey by Luke Evans Groundswell Speaker 2024 2018: walking in the woodsGrowing up in a small village in the Rhymney Valley, Luke's life was shaped by his Jehovah's Witness upbringing, a path he'd eventually navigate to come out to his parents, knowing he risked losing them. In his raw and honest account, he shares his struggles of always feeling different and being bullied as a child, and his brave decision to leave home at just seventeen, searching for a new life and a place where he truly belonged. Starring first on