I belong to no one
By: Gwen Wilson
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Sydney, NSW
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780733634079
Subjects: Women; Biography
Other titles: I belong to no one :
Description: "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 period in Australia, this isolated teenager would make a decision about her child that would tear her life apart, one she would never truly come to terms with"--Publisher's description.