This Accidental Present. A Story Of Two Families

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Andalso Books
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 140 pages. Ex-Library. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In 1951, Kath Walker (later Oodgeroo Noonuccal) became the live-in housekeeper for the family of Sir Raphael and Lady Cilento, an illustrious Brisbane medical family with connections to the United Nations, and - through Diane Cilento and her husband Sean Connery - global show business.In 1953, Kath had a son - Vivian - with the scion of the Cilento clan, Dr Raff Cilento Jnr, who didnt acknowledge his paternity. Oodgeroo became the best-selling poet in Australia, and an importantAboriginal activist - while Raff Jnr would become a neurosurgeon in New York.Vivian was a renowned choreographer and dancer in Sydney and London, and for a while, part-owner of the worlds largest gay disco in West Hollywood.Yet at the heart of the lifelong relationship between these families was a secret. On her deathbed, Oodgeroo wanted to know whether Lady Cilento ever knew that Vivian was her grandson.

ISBN: 9780648905189