Devil's Choice / Old Balmain House Bd.3 (ePub)
A man sits at a table in a prison cell, hands shackled. The door opens.
In comes a slip of a girl, eyes darting around, face drawn and white.
She is small and slender,...
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Old Balmain House family story moves to the next generation
A man sits at a table in a prison cell, hands shackled. The door opens.
In comes a slip of a girl, eyes darting around, face drawn and white.
She is small and slender, like a teenager, but seems older.
The man leers with desire - so long since he has seen a pretty girl.
"Well, well, look what the fairy godmother has brought to pleasure me."
The girl recoils as if struck, then steadies and sits down facing him.
She stares at the man intently, mixed loathing and desperation in her eyes.
She wrings her hand together then holds still, as if to gather courage.
Finally she speaks, "Please, I need to know if you are my father?"
Two decades pass. Lizzie's daughter, Catherine, has a child, Amelie.
But soon after Amelie's third birthday, the unthinkable happens.
She gets sick: the unspoken word is 'CANCER', childhood leukaemia
Treatment fails, it is all to no avail, a little girl's life hangs in the balance.
A bone marrow transplant the last chance - but no match, no donor is found.
Could another relative help - perhaps her father, aunt, uncle or cousin
But who is Catherine's real father, the man who raped her mother.
Three men were there that night; one is murdered, two are in jail.
She must ask for help from these monsters who abused her mother
These men are hardened criminals - she must visit them in prison.
She cannot bear to ask, to beg them and plead for help,
But yet she must try - it is her daughter's only chance.
It truly is a Devil's Choice
A parents worst nightmare. A small child with an incurable disease and a father who served in Vietnam and blames himself for her illness. The family is torn apart. Finally only one choice remains to save the daughter's life, a Devil's Choice.
The time is in the 1980s. Catherine, Lizzie's daughter has returned to Sydney to study. She now lives in Balmain, near where her mother grew up. She settles into life there, establishes a successful career and marries. Then she has a daughter who is the joy of both her and her husband's lives.
But when her daughter is two years old the unimaginable happens. Her daughter develops an incurable disease, advanced leukaemia. Other treatments fail. Now the only option to save her daughters life is a bone marrow transplant. They search desperately for a donor to match. But no one is found. Her daughter has an unusual tissue profile that seems to come from her Catherine's own father.
But who is her father? Catherine was conceived when her mother was raped by three men. Two of the three men who raped her mother are now in jail, destined to spend the most of their life there. The third is dead.
Can Catherine bear to make the choice and bring herself to appeal to one of these men in an attempt to save her daughter's life when she knows that even this may be futile.
This is the third novel in "The Old Balmain House" Series. Novel two, Lizzie's Tale,tells the story of Lizzie a girl from Balmain and her struggle to keep her own daughter when pregnant at only 15 and the terrible choices she must make. This book.continues the family's story into a third generation.
They comprise two series,
1. The Old Balmain House Series
2. The Crocodile Spirit Dreaming Series
along with a family memoir. Children of Arnhem's Kaleidoscope
The first series starts with a novel called The Old Balmain House, based on an old a weatherboard cottage in Sydney where the author lived. Here a photo was discovered of a small girl who lived and died about 100 years ago. The book imagines the story of her life and family, based in the real Balmain, an early inner Sydney suburb, with it's locations and and historical events providing part of the story background. The second novel in this series, Lizzie's Tale builds on The Old Balmain House setting, It is the story of a working class teenage girl who lives in this same house in the 1950s and 1960s, It tells of how, when she becomes pregnant she is determined not to surrender her baby for adoption, and of her struggle to survive in this unforgiving society. The third novel in this series, Devil's Choice, follows the next generation of the family in Lizzie's Tale. Lizzie's daughter is faced with the awful choice of whether to seek the help of one of her mother's rapists' in trying to save the life of her own daughter who is inflicted with an incurable disease.
The Crocodile Spirit Dreaming Series comprises five novels based in Outback Australia. The first novel Just Visiting. tells the story of an English backpacker, Susan, who visits the Northern Territory and becomes captivated and in great danger from a man who loves crocodiles. The second book in the series, Creature of an Ancient Dreaming, (previously The Diary), follows the consequences of the first book based around the discovery of this man's remains and his diary and Susan, being placed on trial for murder. The third book, The Empty Place, is about Susan's struggle to retain her sanity in jail while
The book, Children of Arnhem's Kaleidoscope, is the story of the author's own life in the Northern Territory. It tells of his childhood in an aboriginal community in remote Arnhem Land, in Australia's Northern Territory, one of its last frontiers. It tells of the people, danger and beauty of this place, and of its transformation over the last half century with the coming of aboriginal rights and the discovery or uranium. It also tells of his surviving an attack by a large crocodile and of his work over two decades in the outback of the NT.
Books are published as ebooks by Smashwords, Amazon, Kobo, Ibooks and other major ebook publishers. Some books are available in print through Amazon Create Space.
Graham is in the early stages of planning a memoir about his family's connections with Ireland called Memories Only Remain and also is compiling information for a book about the early NT cattle industry, its people and its stories.
Graham writes for the creative pleasure it brings him. He is particularly gratified each time an unknown person chooses to download and read something he has written and write a review - good or bad, as this gives him an insight into what readers enjoy and helps him make ongoing improvements to his writing.
In his non writing life Graham is a veterinarian who work in wildlife conservation and for rural landholders. He lived a large part of his life in the Northern Territory and his books reflect this experience.
- Autor: Graham Wilson
- 2018, Second Edition, 198 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Beyond Beyond Books
- ISBN-10: 1370741898
- ISBN-13: 9781370741892
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.02.2018
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