Loitering with Intent: The Child

This is Peter O’Toole’s account of his early life, a childhood framed by Captain Pat O’Toole, itinerant bookmaker, and Constance Jane Eliot Ferguson. In all that he writes of the period, O’Toole reveals his deep understanding of the absurd, both comic and chilling, and how he touches on the tragic – most notably in his studies of Hitler and the effect the Fuhrer has had on his life.