True North: The Shocking Truth about Yours, Mine and Ours

De: Tom North

Narrado por: Tom North

Tom North is one of the eight North children, who together with the ten Beardsley children, became the family that was featured in the 1968 film, Yours, Mine and Ours, starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda, and again in the 2005 version starring Rene Russo and Dennis Quaid. The book begins in the 1950s on Whidbey Island, Washington, where Tom’s mother, Helen North, became a widow when she was just thirty years old and pregnant with her eighth child. Not long after, Helen North met and married Frank Beardsley, a man with ten children and the North children were adopted and their names changed to Beardsley. But it wasn’t one big happy family, as the movie depicted. When Tom finally left home, he traveled on a journey of survival, self-discovery, and healing. Years later, miraculously led his family in counseling sessions where shocking truths were revealed, he came full circle as he reclaimed his father’s name and was finally, True North.

©July 2013 True North Productions, LLC (P)2017 True North Productions, LLC

Great story teller. Sad about Tom’s up bringing but inspirational rebound to create a life of trueHappiness.

Highly recommend
Read in one day sitting
Excellent
It made me want to read a lot more books by Tom north.

Enlightening, to say the least.

A really powerful story. I enjoyed it. Very different than the movie portrayed the family.

a very good read

Kudos to Tom North for having the courage and fortitude to evaluate his life and lives around him, and make it work out in the best of ways. He proved to be a survivor.... !!

More of odd rambling personal stories

There was not much about life in the house. The stories are more about Tom North rambling about drugs, fishing and pointless people he had interactions with in his life.

Ever little about actual life in the household and interactions with siblings and parents. Though he makes allegations of physical and sexual abuse, but failed to come across sincere or believable.

Don’t buy the book

I was disappointed that he spent more writing about his self instead of the family situation. Skipped over many chapters.