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ISBN-13
9781741666144
ISBN
9781741666144
Book Title
The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants to Australia
Publisher
Random House Australia
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
194 mm
Author
David Hill
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Topic
Transportation
Item Width
128 mm
Item Weight
270 g
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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B-format of one of 2007's Australian non-fiction bestsellers. In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in England - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in New South Wales where, she was led to believe, they would have a good education and a better life.David was lucky - his mother was able to follow him out to Australia - but for most children, the reality was shockingly different. From 1938 to 1974 thousands of parents were persuaded to sign over legal guardianship of their children to Fairbridge to solve the problem of child poverty in Britain while populating the colony. Now many of those children have decided to speak out. Physical and sexual abuse was not uncommon. Loneliness was rife. Food was often inedible. The standard of education was appalling.Here, for the first time, is the story of the lives of the Fairbridge children, from the bizarre luxury of the voyage out to Australia to the harsh reality of the first days there; from the crushing dailyroutine to stolen moments of freedom and the struggle that defined life after leaving the school. This remarkable book is both a tribute to the children who were betrayed by an ideal that went terribly awry and a compelling account of an extraordinary episode in Australian-British History.

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Publisher
Random House Australia
ISBN-13
9781741666144
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94779373

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Book Title
The Forgotten Children: Fairbridge Farm School and its Betrayal of Britain's Child Migrants to Australia
Author
David Hill
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Transportation
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
384 Pages

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Item Height
194 mm
Item Width
128 mm
Item Weight
270 g

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Australia
Title_Author
David Hill
Topic Area
Sexual Abuse

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  • by malpaul1
    14 Jan, 2024

    Heart breaking

    It is very hard to read as so close to home my brothers were part of this establishment heart breaking

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: lozb_7952

  • by aQ2PL0UOR1m@Deleted
    14 Oct, 2016

    Excellent reading

    Great reading cannot put this book down

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: the_nile

  • by marjul28
    22 Dec, 2016

    Having a friend who was one of "the Forgotten Children", this has been most informative for me. Horrific stories, but very engaging.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: wifeofsteptoe

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