Ten Hail Mary's

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: University Of Queensland Press
Publisher Place: St Lucia
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: Reprint

Description: 303 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: An extraordinary story of hope and survival. In January 1966, Kate Howarth gave birth to a healthy baby boy at St Margarets Home for unwed mothers in Sydney. In the months before the birth, and the days after, she resisted intense pressure to give up her son for adoption, becoming one of the few women to ever leave the institution withher baby. She was only sixteen years old. What inspired such courage In Ten Hail Marys, Kate Howarth vividly recounts the first seventeen years of her life in Sydneys slums and suburbs and in rural New South Wales. Abandoned by her mother as a baby and then by Mamma, her volatile grandmother, as a young girl, Kate was shunted between Aboriginal relatives and expected to grow up fast. A natural storyteller, she describes a childhood beset by hardship, abuse, profound grief and poverty, but buoyed with the hope that one day she would make a better life for herself. Frank, funny an incredibly moving,Ten Hail Marysis the compelling true story of a childhood lost, and a young womans hard-won self-possession.

ISBN: 9780702237706