{"product_id":"9780733634079","title":"I Belong to No One","description":"Author: Gwen Wilson\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780733634079\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Hachette Australia\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 30 Jun 2015\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA teenager in the 1970s, Gwen Wilson grew up in Western Sydney. It was a tough childhood. Illegitimate, fatherless - her mother in and out of psychiatric hospitals; it would have been easy for anyone to despair and give up. Yet Gwen had hope. Despite it all, she was a good student, fighting hard for a scholarship and a brighter future.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen she met Colin. Someone to love who would love her back. But that short-lived love wasn't the sanctuary Gwen was looking for. It was the start of a living hell. Rape was just the beginning. By sixteen she was pregnant, her education abandoned. Australian society did not tolerate single mothers; prejudice and discrimination followed her everywhere.  In an effort to save her son, Jason, from the illegitimacy and deprivation she'd grown up with, Gwen chose to marry Colin - and too quickly the nightmare of physical abuse, poverty and homelessness seemed inescapable.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1974, in the dying days of the forced adoption era in Australia, this isolated teenager was compelled to make a decision about her child that would tear her life apart, one she would never truly come to terms with.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI BELONG TO NO ONE is one woman's story of all she lost and how hard she fought to survive and eventually triumph.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47918967128222,"sku":"ING-9780733634079","price":35.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780733634079.jpg?v=1782801895","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780733634079","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}