Grieving My Boarding School Loneliness

There is a particular form of loneliness that emanates from being abandoned by your parents in a strange place, in a building full of strangers and a couple of hundred other little boys.

There is a particular form of loneliness that emanates from being abandoned by your parents in a strange place, in a building full of strangers and a couple of hundred other little boys, in the opposite hemisphere to your adopted home.

I twice endured stints at boarding school, on different sides of the world, completely different yet so much the same. F…