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Forbidden Fruit: Anglo Indian Daughter of a Jesuit Priest in Search of Identity
By Esther Lyons
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Born in India and now living in Australia, Lyons was presented
with a plaque commemorating her familys place in history.
A descendant of Francois Bienvenu dit Delisle, one of the
Frenchmen who helped Cadillac found the city in 1701
Andrea Blum, Heritage Sunday Newspapers, Detroit Sunday July 29, 2001
This is a remarkable book. Its author tells the dramatic story of
her tireless search for her father after his departure from India
and, in the course of it, her indomitable struggle for an identity,
against innumerable and seemingly insuperable obstacles
posed by the confl icting background
Dr.W.A. Suchting, Reader, Dept of Philosophy, University of Sydney, Australia
What an extraordinary story! Thank you for being force enough
to write such a powerful, inspiring story. Written by a lady of great
gifts courage, truth, integrity, intelligence, forgiveness...
Br Charles Howard, Ex-Provincial, Marist Brothers, Sydney, Australia
A powerful work written by a courageous author. The reader
will be encouraged in the end by the triumph of human spirit.
Alfred Holland, The Age newspaper, Melbourne, Australia
This autobiography is a heart-breaking search of a child at
home and abroad for a father, the tribulation of alienation from,
and rejection by ones own society, the despair of youth fi nding
little reason to count blessing through adulthood.
Michael Flannery, The Statesman of India, Calcutta, India.
Forbidden Fruit describes a place and a time that lives on only
in the memories of many people. The India of today is a vastly
different place to that in the 1940s and 1950s and so the Anglo-
Indians and Indians of today are a very different people.
Adrian Gilbert, Editor, Anglo-Indian Association, Melbourne, Australia.
with a plaque commemorating her familys place in history.
A descendant of Francois Bienvenu dit Delisle, one of the
Frenchmen who helped Cadillac found the city in 1701
Andrea Blum, Heritage Sunday Newspapers, Detroit Sunday July 29, 2001
This is a remarkable book. Its author tells the dramatic story of
her tireless search for her father after his departure from India
and, in the course of it, her indomitable struggle for an identity,
against innumerable and seemingly insuperable obstacles
posed by the confl icting background
Dr.W.A. Suchting, Reader, Dept of Philosophy, University of Sydney, Australia
What an extraordinary story! Thank you for being force enough
to write such a powerful, inspiring story. Written by a lady of great
gifts courage, truth, integrity, intelligence, forgiveness...
Br Charles Howard, Ex-Provincial, Marist Brothers, Sydney, Australia
A powerful work written by a courageous author. The reader
will be encouraged in the end by the triumph of human spirit.
Alfred Holland, The Age newspaper, Melbourne, Australia
This autobiography is a heart-breaking search of a child at
home and abroad for a father, the tribulation of alienation from,
and rejection by ones own society, the despair of youth fi nding
little reason to count blessing through adulthood.
Michael Flannery, The Statesman of India, Calcutta, India.
Forbidden Fruit describes a place and a time that lives on only
in the memories of many people. The India of today is a vastly
different place to that in the 1940s and 1950s and so the Anglo-
Indians and Indians of today are a very different people.
Adrian Gilbert, Editor, Anglo-Indian Association, Melbourne, Australia.
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