Daughter of The River Country : From stolen childhood to remarkable leader - A memoir of survival and triumph

Echo Publishing, 2021. Softcover. Near Fine. AUSTRALIANA ABORIGINAL BIOGRAPHY Â Born in rural Australia in the 1940s, baby Dianne is immediately taken from her parents and placed with a white family. Raised in an era of widespread racism, she grows up believing her Irish adoptive mother is her birth mother. When her adoptive mother tragically dies and she is abandoned by her adoptive father, Dianne is raped, sent to the brutal Parramatta Girls Home and forced to marry her rapist in order to keep her baby. After suffering years of domestic abuse, but refusing to let her spirit be broken, Diane finally discovers she is a Yorta Yorta woman, a daughter of the river country, and is reunited with her birth mother. She learns that her great-grandfather was a famous Aboriginal activist and from here she becomes a powerful leader in her own right, vowing to help others in any way she can. 336 pages : portraits (some colour) ; 23 cm #230923 First Edition O'Brien, Dianne O'Brien, Dianne -- Childhood and youth O'Brien, Dianne -- Family Parramatta Girls Home (Parramatta, N.S.W.) Stolen generations (Australia) Aboriginal Australians Aboriginal Australians -- History Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography Adoptive parents -- Australia Desertion and non-support -- Australia Rape victims -- Australia Pregnant women -- Australia Mothers -- Australia Married people -- Australia Abused women -- Australia Family violence -- Australia Birthmothers -- Australia Human rights workers -- Australia Australian Biography & Memoir (Australia) Australian Aboriginal studies (Australia) Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Softcover Near Fine