A Tangle Of Roots

Imagine you’re a woman of fifty two and you’ve just set eyes on your daughter for the very first time. She’s twenty six years old. In all the intervening years you have had no idea what she looked like, what she was doing or what she was called. But it gets worse. That daughter now describes the appalling abuse she has suffered while trying to trace her roots.

Within living memory, Australian authorities took a very tough line with illegitimacy. Babies were taken away at birth and the mothers deprived of all information about them. Instead, they were pressured into signing adoption papers while still emotionally weak.

In this fictional story, Bridget O'Driscoll gives birth to an illegitimate daughter in Australia. The baby is taken from her and put up for adoption.

Twenty six years later, Bridget is married and living in England when, out of the blue, a letter arrives from Australia. Bridget's daughter, Faith, wants to make contact. Bridget and her husband fly to Australia to meet her but they are quite unprepared for the traumatic story she has to tell them about her life.

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