Shadowman

This is no ordinary autobiography. In 2003 Johnny Daukes acknowledged to himself and confessed to his younger
brother that he had been sexually abused as a child. This was by a man in charge of a boys’ club in Oxford, run by the
Catholic organisation Opus Dei. In 1984 the abuser married their older sister and the couple went on to have ten
children. In 1992 Johnny formed the band FIN and they released records, toured extensively and received a great deal
of press and national airplay. He also went on to become a successful voice-over artist, screenwriter and director.
Later in life Johnny came to realise that these projects – his lyrics, sketches and scripts – were in fact the documents,
or records, of a life that had been corrupted. Shadowman is an extraordinary memoir about childhood abuse and one
man’s unwitting attempt to examine and understand the past through creativity and art.