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The Inconvenient Child

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780646487823 Author(s): Lindsay Lewis Format: Paperback Year: 2009 Publisher: Miracle Publishing Dimensions: 234 x 21 x 156 (w x l x h) Pages: 416

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Description: It is 1948, Sydney. Pretty, blonde Grace discovers she is pregnant to a black merchant marine who has sailed back to America. The White Australia Policy is in place and society's judgement matters; so what will Grace do with this baby? This is the true story of the inconvenient child. Rescued from neglectful foster care by an American champion boxer, the baby is taken to live in a party house in Sydney's red light district of Kings Cross. Her absent, elegant mother then abandons Sharyn in a convent-orphanage at age five. By 15, discrimination within her family, resentment and clashes over her father's undisclosed identity see the troubled teenager running away to the streets of Kings Cross where she's arrested and sentenced to notorious juvenile detention centres. Sharyn's solace is her love of music but can she realise her dream to become a singer if, by 24, she is trapped in the Kings Cross lifestyle? Determined to find her father, Sharyn sets out in search of her roots, a quest taking her across the world and eventually to America's Deep South. But will she find the loving family and belonging she has yearned for all her life?

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