{"product_id":"this-is-where-you-have-to-go-by-jo-tuscano-9780645818079","title":"This Is Where You Have To Go","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e150,000 adoptions took place in Australia between 1950 and 1975. It is estimated that one in 15 was forced.\u003c\/strong\u003e Proud Dhunghutti woman, lawyer, human rights advocate and former midwife Lynda Holden tells her own heartbreaking story and of her fight for justice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1970, Lynda was eighteen, unmarried and pregnant when she was forced to give her baby up for adoption. She was sent by a doctor to a Catholic girls' home for unmarried mothers, and told she'd have no hope of keeping her child because she was Aboriginal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter twenty-six years, Lynda was finally able to make contact with her lost son – but the much wished for reunion didn't go well. When she looked into the adoption records, she found a web of lies – lies about her family, the baby's father, her 'consent' for the adoption – and her Indigenous heritage had been completely erased.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo began a quest for justice: Lynda took on the Catholic Church in an attempt to right the wrongs of the past. In this incredibly powerful memoir, \u003cem\u003eThis Is Where You Have To Go\u003c\/em\u003e, she sheds light on the lasting impacts of forced adoption on mothers, children and their families, and gives voice to the countless women who have been silenced for generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244782301420,"sku":"9780645818079","price":41.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780645818079-this-is-where-you-have-to-go-1.jpg?v=1788013610","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/this-is-where-you-have-to-go-by-jo-tuscano-9780645818079","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}