WHEN John Fitzgibbon first began writing a story that had tormented him most of his life, he never thought it would be something he would share with the wider community.

But now, his couldn’t be happier that his thought-provoking memoir The Peppercorn Tree, recounting his horrific abuse at the hands of the predatory Father John Day as a child in the 1960s, has been released to the public.

His ...