Killens, Sharyn The Inconvenient Child. Sharyn Killens and Lindsay Lewis. Sydney: Miracle, 2010. 416 pp. $Au24.95.
"In The Inconvenient Child... [veteran entertainer] Killens ... relates a wrenching and finally satisfying story of abject misery and triumphant emotion ... She was the product of a two-week fling between a blond good-time girl ... and an African American Marine who visited Sydney following World War II ... 'Princess Mummy' gave the child away: first to friends, then to a convent where she was beaten by a psychopathic nun, and finally ... to the infamous Parramatta Girls' Home ... She ended up in the even more terrifying Hay Institution, which was little short ofa …
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