For a girl / Mary-Rose MacColl
- Bib ID:
- 7335917
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- MacColl, Mary-Rose, 1961-, author
- Description:
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- Crows Nest NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2017
- ©2017
- 276 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBN:
- 9781760295233 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Emerging from an unconventional, boisterously happy childhood, Mary-Rose MacColl was a rebellious teenager. And when, at the age of fifteen, her high-school teacher and her husband started inviting Mary-Rose to spend time with them, her parents were pleased that she now had the guidance she needed to take her safely into young adulthood. It wasn't too long, though, before the teacher and her husband changed the nature of that relationship with overwhelming consequences for Mary-Rose. Consequences that kept her silent and ashamed through much of her adult life. Many years later, safe within a loving relationship, all of the long-hidden secrets and betrayals crashed down upon her and she came close to losing everything. In this poignant and brave true story, Mary-Rose brings these secrets to the surface and, in doing so, is finally able to watch them float away.
- Subject:
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- MacColl, Mary-Rose, 1961-
- Teenage mothers -- Australia -- Biography
- Teenage pregnancy -- Australia
- Journalists -- Australia -- Biography
- Authors, Australian -- Biography
- Birthmothers -- Queensland -- Biography
- Unmarried mothers -- Queensland -- Biography
- Adoption -- Queensland
- Girls -- Crimes against -- Biography
- Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Biography
- Australian
- Also Titled:
- For a girl : a true story of secrets, motherhood and hope
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2017
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