The Road to Myself
The Road to Myself is a candid and deeply reflective memoir of longing, love, loss, failure, family, and late-found peace.
Moving from post-war England through boarding schools, first love, marriages, fatherhood, hotels, yachts, and years of restless searching, Anthony Stovold traces the shape of a life lived in hunger for belonging. Honest about desire as well as regret, and about tenderness as well as mistake, this is the story of a man trying to understand what he was looking for all along.
Set across England and France and then, later, the Philippines, The Road to Myself is not simply a record of events, but a journey through memory itself: childhood, awakening, family fracture, sexual confusion, reinvention, ageing, and the hard-won recognition of what truly matters.
At its heart, this memoir is about the search to be seen, to be loved, and to come at last to a place of acceptance.
In the end, it is not the story of a man who conquered the world, but of one who finally came home to love, family, and himself.
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