Raped, reduced to working in a brothel to keep her baby, unwed, teenage mother, Lizzie, forges a new life for herself and her child in remote Australia. Her persecutors find her and will expose her unless she gives them what she wants. Can she evade them and gain justice? She flees with her 6 year old daughter - lost in a desert without water. Can a silver locket of an unknown child save them? Old Balmain House Series continues In 1963 a new family lives in the old house in Balmain. Fifteen year old Lizzie, her mother and six year old brother A rich friend invites Lizzie to a party - the future glitters bright. She is plied with champagne - she has never had a drink before. Three men, she thinks are her friends, ask her to come for a drive. They take her to a park and rape her. Mortified, she hides it. She finds she is pregnant. She knows officials will take her baby. Rape was bad enough, losing her child is unthinkable. She runs away, she will not let this most awful thing happen In Melbourne she seeks to build a new life, just her with a tiny baby. Life is unbelievably hard, no money, no food, no one to help her. In desperation she becomes a prostitute, her least bad option. But authorities discover her age and seek to take her child. She flees again to Broome, builds a new respectable life. But her story is discovered - now she is pursued again. With nowhere else to go she drives far into the desert. Stranded with no water and a six year old daughter, help comes from an unexpected quarter. A silver locket of an unknown child is the key to her survival.
About the Author: Graham Wilson lives in Sydney Australia. He has completed and published nine separate books. They comprise two series, 1. The Old Balmain House Series - three novels 2 The Crocodile Spirit Dreaming Series - five novels along with a family memoir, Children of Arnhem's Kaleidoscope The Old Balmain House Series starts with this novel, Little Lost Girl, which was previously titled, The Old Balmain House. Its setting is an old weatherboard cottage, in Sydney, where the author lived for seven years. 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 its locations and historical events providing part of the story background. The second novel in this series, Lizzie's Tale, builds on the 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 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 is an Outback Noir story of 5 novels about an English backpacker whose Australian holiday turns into a terrifying nightmare, when she discovers the man she is involved with hides dark secrets and she must escape. 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,