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Gwen Wilson

Gwen Wilson started writing her memoir in her fifties. Essentially self-educated, Gwen worked as a motel receptionist, dental nurse and switchboard operator until at nineteen, in the exciting days of the pre-container era, a chance opportunity saw her land a role in customs clearance on the male-dominated Port Adelaide waterfront. A stable marriage and successful career in shipping and logistics followed until she retired; after which Gwen entered university for the first time and now holds a Master’s Degree in Electronic Commerce. Gwen and husband Bill live by the sea in Wollongong, New South Wales.

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Title:: I Belong to No One (MP3)
Written by:: Gwen Wilson
Read by:: Gwen Wilson
Format:: Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 1
Duration:: 12 hours 37 minutes
MP3 size:: 547 MB
Published:: August 28 2016
Available Date:: August 28 2016
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781489351999
Genres:: Non-fiction; Memoirs
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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One woman's story of all she lost and how hard she fought to survive and eventually triumph.

A 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. Then 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. In 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. I Belong to No One is her story.