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Not Just Black and White
Not Just Black and White
Not Just Black and White
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Not Just Black and White

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Lesley Williams is forced to leave Cherbourg Aboriginal Settlement and her family at a young age to work as a domestic servant. Apart from a bit of pocket money, Lesley never sees her wages – they are kept ‘safe’ for her and for countless others just like her. She is taught not to question her life, until desperation makes her start to wonder, where is all that money she earned? So begins a nine-year journey for answers which will test every ounce of her resolve. Inspired by her mother’s quest, a teenage Tammy Williams enters a national writing competition. The winning prize takes Tammy and Lesley to Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch and ultimately to the United Nations in Geneva. Told with honesty and humor, Not Just Black and White is an extraordinary memoir about two women determined to make sure history is not forgotten.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateOct 1, 2015
ISBN9780702255946
Not Just Black and White
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Lesley Williams

Lesley Williams is Partner at Bishop & Williams Ltd.

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    Coincidentally found myself finishing this on Australia/Invasion Day, which made it particularly poignant. This joint (auto-)biography tells the story of Lesley Williams life - from the strictly controlled Cherbourg community, through jobs forced upon her by the bureaucracy tasked with 'protecting' her, to the struggle through the 80s and 90s to gain access to pay that had been kept from her for decades. It's a sad but warm book, with moments of dreadful pain and amazing successes - the intertextual conversation between the two authors (mother & daughter) is sweet and the little moments where they react to each others' writing were my favourite parts of the book. It's not perfect by any means, but it's a necessary, engaging and uplifting book - I wouldn't be at all surprised to see it on the Stella longlist.

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