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LIZZIE?S TALE IBD

BIOBROKERS PTY LTD
07 / 2017
9780995431379
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Sinopsis

Old Balmain House Series continuesIn 1963 a new family lives in the old house in Balmain.áFifteen year old Lizzie, her mother and six year old brotherA rich friend invites Lizzie to a party &ndash, the future glitters bright.áShe is plied with champagne - she has never had a drink before.áThree men, she thinks are her friends, ask her to come for a drive.áThey take her to a park and rape her. Mortified, she hides it.She finds she is pregnant. She knows officials will take her baby.áRape was bad enough, losing her child is unthinkable.áShe runs away, she will not let this most awful thing happenIn Melbourne she seeks to build a new life, just her with a tiny baby.Life is unbelievably hard, no money, no food, no one to help her.áIn desperation she becomes a prostitute, her least bad option.áBut authorities discover her age and seek to take her child.She flees again to Broome, builds a new respectable life.áBut her story is discovered - now she is pursued again.áWith nowhere else to go she drives far into the desert.Stranded with no water and a six year old daughter, help comes from an unexpected quarter. A silver locket of an unknown child is the key to her survival.