Graham Wilson

Lizzie's Tale (Old Balmain House, #2) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Raped and reduced to working in a brothel to keep her baby, unwed, teenage mother, Lizzie, forges a new life for herself and her child in the Kimberley region of Australia. But can she evade her persecutors and ultimately bring to them to justice?

This is a story of a girl from inner Sydney. Her family is poor, her father dies when she is nine, life is hard. But her courage rises above adversity. It is story of her struggle to survive and make a life of her own, first as a prostitute, then with her child in a remote outback town. This is the second book in the series, "Old Balmain House" and begins in the same house as the first book and continues part of the story of Sophie, the girl who vanished half a century ago. Lizzie, aged eight, meets Sophie, the girl who lived in the same bedroom as a child. Sophie becomes her friend.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Graham Wilson
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311406361
• Artikelnr.: 47426689

Autorenporträt

Graham Wilson has completed and published twelve novels and a memoir.His most recent novel is : 'Mysteries', set in early Sydney about an old house and a mother and child missing for 30 years.Other novels comprise two series,1. Old Balmain House Series - 3 books2. Crocodile Dreaming Series - 7 books.He has also written a standalone novel, 'Risk Free'.Graham's family memoir, 'Arnhem's Kaleidoscope Children' tells of his family's life in an aboriginal community the Northern Territory's remote Arnhem Land. It chronicles an idyllic childhood, 50 years of change with aboriginal land rights and discovery or uranium. It also tells of his surviving an attack by a large crocodile and of his work over two decades in the outback of the NT.Graham's career was first as a veterinarian in a mixed practice treating farm animals and people's pets, before following his love for wildlife through working at Melbourne, Taronga and Western Plains Zoos. He spent two decades working on large cattle and buffalo properties in the Northern Territory before moving to Sydney where he now lives in one of Sydney's oldest houses in the Rocks. He has continued to follow his joint passions working with animals, wildlife conservation and writing stories.