A Tale Of Survival

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: The Five Mile Press
Publisher Place: Scoresby, Vic
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 280 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exceptions are a few light age markings on the inside page and some reading wear. Seven Year Old Graham Rundle Was Excited To Learn He Was Going For A Holiday At A Place Where He'd Have A Chance To Play With Other Boys. A Few Days Later His Dad Dropped Him Off At Eden Park, A Salvation Army Boys' Home Near Adelaide. From Now On He Would Be Called '44'

Publishers Description: At age seven, Graham Rundle was taken by his father for a ‘holiday to Eden Park, a Salvation Army boys home outside Adelaide. As soon as his father left, Graham was given old clothes to wear and told from now on he was known as ‘44. The book vividly portrays what happened to Graham over the following eight years, from 1959 until 1968, living in fear of sexual abuse by the people who were supposed to care for him.This extraordinary book contrasts the dark moments of unbelievable depravity with some of the sweetest and most innocent acts of kindness. As well as portraying life in the home, Graham writes of his taste of freedom at high school and at Indigenous camps at the Coorong, and of his time spent with his beloved, lifesaving Nana. An extraordinary tale of resilience, determination and humour. A ten-year legal battle resulted in a long jail sentence for one of the abusers.

ISBN: 9781760061777