I Belong to No One

Gwen Wilson, Gwen Wilson

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Bolinda Publishing
28 August 2016

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Humanities

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A teenager in the 1970s, Gwen Wilson grew up in Western Sydney. It was a tough childhood. Illegitimate, fatherless - her mother in and out of psychiatric hospitals; it would have been easy for anyone to despair and give up. Yet Gwen had hope. Despite it all, she was a good student, fighting hard for a scholarship and a brighter future.

Then she met Colin. Someone to love who would love her back. But that short-lived love wasn't the sanctuary Gwen was looking for. It was the start of a living hell. Rape was just the beginning. By sixteen she was pregnant, her education abandoned. Australian society did not tolerate single mothers; prejudice and discrimination followed her everywhere. In an effort to save her son, Jason, from the illegitimacy and deprivation she'd grown up with, Gwen chose to marry Colin - and too quickly the nightmare of physical abuse, poverty and homelessness seemed inescapable.

In 1974, in the dying days of the forced adoption era in Australia, this isolated teenager was compelled to make a decision about her child that would tear her life apart, one she would never truly come to terms with.

I Belong to No One is her story.

By: Gwen Wilson
Read by: Gwen Wilson
Imprint: Bolinda Publishing
Country of Publication: Australia
Edition: Unabridged
Dimensions: Height: 134mm, Width: 146mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 239g
ISBN: 9781489351982
ISBN 10: 1489351981
Publication Date: 28 August 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: CD-Audio
Publisher's Status: Active

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