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Meet the authors of the extraordinary true story "The Inconvenient Child"

Monday, November 23, 2009 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM (GMT+1000)

Dickson, Australia

Meet the authors of the extraordinary true story

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Bring your lunch along to the library and hear Sharyn Killens and Lindsay Lewis tell this extraordinary true story. Books will be available for sale on the day. Please note change of venue: this event will now be held at Dickson Library

 

The Inconvenient Child, a compelling new book, reveals the shocking true story of a secret Australian child's struggle to survive childhood and find her African American family, after a search spanning two continents and 48 years. Sharyn Killens is better known as Sharyn Crystal, a successful Australian singer and entertainer. But her life wasn't always glamorous and her childhood was at times, a living hell.

 

As a troubled runaway teenager, she was arrested in Kings Cross. Sharyn had committed no crime but the Courts deemed her uncontrollable and in 1964, she was sentenced to notorious juvenile detention centres of Parramatta Girls Home then Hay Girls Institution.

 

The Inconvenient Child is the true account of her extraordinary journey to success, the search for her roots and her quest to discover her identity.

 

Sharyn's story is not all heartbreak and misery. It's also a story of triumph, faith, success and joy.

 

Discover more about this book at: http://www.theinconvenientchild.com/