{"title":"Old Balmain House","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"lizzie-s-tale-book-graham-wilson-9780995431386","title":"Lizzie's Tale","description":"\u003cp\u003eUpdated version of the second book in the 'Old Balmain House' Series\u003cbr\u003e Raped and reduced to working in a brothel to keep her baby, unwed, teenage mother, Lizzie, forges a new life for herself and her child in the Kimberley region of AustraliaBut can she evade her persecutors and ultimately bring to them to justice?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is a story of a girl from inner SydneyHer family is poor, her father dies when she is nine, life is hardBut her courage rises above adversityIt is story of her struggle to survive and make a life of her own, first as a prostitute, then with her child in a remote outback town\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is the second book in the series, Old Balmain House and begins in the same house as the first book and continues part of the story of Sophie, the girl who vanished half a century agoLizzie, aged eight, meets Sophie, the girl who lived in the same bedroom as a childSophie becomes her friend\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When Lizzie turns fifteen Sophie tries to warn her not to go in a car with three older boys\u003cbr\u003e Lizzie ignores her warning and is brutally raped by these three men\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lizzie becomes pregnant and is determined to keep her childShe leaves Sydney and goes to Melbourne, to have and keep her babyHere, penniless and desperate, she become a prostitute the only way she can support herselfShe is discovered and the authorities try to take her child\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e She flees to Broome, a small town in the furthest corner of of AustraliaHere she assumes the role of widow with a small child and settles into this friendly townHer life is good until a man from her former life finds her and threatens to expose her or harm her child\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e She runs againOn a remote desert road her car breaks downWithout water, with her six year old daughter beside her, they face death from thirstHelp comes in an unexpected wayShe takes refuge in a local aboriginal community\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Her school friend from Balmain, now a journalist, seeks retribution from the the men who raped Lizzie many years ago and have continued their ways with othersNow, as successful business men, they seek to use the law to deny justice\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51011327492369,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51011331227921,"sku":"NIN9780995431386","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0995431388.jpg?v=1786133803"},{"product_id":"devil-s-choice-book-graham-wilson-9780995431324","title":"Devil's Choice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOld Balmain House family story moves to the next generation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man sits at a table in a prison cell, hands shackled. The door opens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn comes a slip of a girl, eyes darting around, face drawn and white.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is small and slender, like a teenager, but seems older.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe man leers with desire - so long since he has seen a pretty girl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell, well, look what the fairy godmother has brought to pleasure me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe girl recoils as if struck, then steadies and sits down facing him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe stares at the man intently, mixed loathing and desperation in her eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe wrings her hand together then holds still, as if to gather courage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally she speaks, Please, I need to know if you are my father?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo decades pass. Lizzie's daughter, Catherine, has a child, Amelie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut soon after Amelie's third birthday, the unthinkable happens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe gets sick: the unspoken word is 'CANCER', childhood leukaemia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTreatment fails, it is all to no avail, a little girl's life hangs in the balance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bone marrow transplant the last chance - but no match, no donor is found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCould another relative help - perhaps her father, aunt, uncle or cousin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut who is Catherine's real father, the man who raped her mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree men were there that night; one is murdered, two are in jail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe must ask for help from these monsters who abused her mother\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese men are hardened criminals - she must visit them in prison.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe cannot bear to ask, to beg them and plead for help, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut yet she must try - it is her daughter's only chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt truly is a Devil's Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA parents worst nightmare. A small child with an incurable disease and a father who served in Vietnam and blames himself for her illness. The family is torn apart. Finally only one choice remains to save the daughter's life, a Devil's Choice.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The time is in the 1980s. Catherine, Lizzie's daughter has returned to Sydney to study. She now lives in Balmain, near where her mother grew up. She settles into life there, establishes a successful career and marries. Then she has a daughter who is the joy of both her and her husband's lives.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But when her daughter is two years old the unimaginable happens. Her daughter develops an incurable disease, advanced leukaemia. Other treatments fail. Now the only option to save her daughters life is a bone marrow transplant. They search desperately for a donor to match. But no one is found. Her daughter has an unusual tissue profile that seems to come from her Catherine's own father.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But who is her father? Catherine was conceived when her mother was raped by three men. Two of the three men who raped her mother are now in jail, destined to spend the most of their life there. The third is dead.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Can Catherine bear to make the choice and bring herself to appeal to one of these men in an attempt to save her daughter's life when she knows that even this may be futile.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is the third novel in The Old Balmain House Series. Novel two, Lizzie's Tale, tells the story of Lizzie a girl from Balmain and her struggle to keep her own daughter when pregnant at only 15 and the terrible choices she must make. This book.continues the family's story into a third generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51011357638929,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51011360358673,"sku":"NIN9780995431324","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0995431329.jpg?v=1786129616"},{"product_id":"little-lost-girl-book-graham-wilson-9780995431348","title":"Little Lost Girl","description":"\u003cp\u003eA little girl vanished 100 years ago. Her name was Sophie. Where did she go?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e An old house in Balmain. A portrait and perfume bottle hidden in a chimney.\u003cbr\u003e Unknown and untouched, while a century passed, their memory slowly fading. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Glimpses of an eight year old girl and her school friend, missing, never found. \u003cbr\u003e The grief of those left behind, those who searched, those who yearned.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e So begins a journey to discover an Australian family, five generations, from 1840 to today. Buried in their past is the story of a long lost girl and the pain her vanishing left behind. Fragments slowly emerge from within the walls, stories of those who built and lived in this place.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Her identity is revealed but her disappearance remains a mystery\u003cbr\u003e A chance discovery gives a vital clue.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Set around beautiful Sydney Harbour, this is the story of people and place, from early colonisation to the present day. This book is the first in the Old Balmain House Series. It is a new and revised edition of the previously titled 'The Old Balmain House'.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51011393421585,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51011396632849,"sku":"NIN9780995431348","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0995431345.jpg?v=1786130963"},{"product_id":"little-lost-girl-book-graham-wilson-9781541269286","title":"Little Lost Girl","description":"A little girl vanished 100 years ago. Her name was Sophie. Where did she go? An old house in Balmain. A portrait and perfume bottle hidden in a chimney. Unknown and untouched, while a century passed, their memory slowly fading. Glimpses of an eight year old girl and her school friend, missing, never found. The grief of those left behind, those who searched, those who yearned. So begins a journey to discover an Australian family, five generations, from 1840 to today. Buried in their past is the story of a long lost girl and the pain her vanishing left behind. Fragments slowly emerge from within the walls, stories of those who built and lived in this place. Her identity is revealed but her disappearance remains a mystery. A chance discovery gives a vital clue. Set around beautiful Sydney Harbour, this is the story of people and place, from early colonisation to the present day. This book is the first in the Old Balmain House Series.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51518343807249,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51518344233233,"sku":"CIN1541269284VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1541269284.jpg?v=1751118857"},{"product_id":"devil-s-choice-book-graham-wilson-9780995431393","title":"Devil's Choice","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOld Balmain House family story moves to the next generation\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man sits at a table in a prison cell, hands shackled. The door opens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn comes a slip of a girl, eyes darting around, face drawn and white.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe is small and slender, like a teenager, but seems older.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe man leers with desire - so long since he has seen a pretty girl.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWell, well, look what the fairy godmother has brought to pleasure me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe girl recoils as if struck, then steadies and sits down facing him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe stares at the man intently, mixed loathing and desperation in her eyes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe wrings her hand together then holds still, as if to gather courage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinally she speaks, Please, I need to know if you are my father?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo decades pass. Lizzie's daughter, Catherine, has a child, Amelie.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut soon after Amelie's third birthday, the unthinkable happens.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe gets sick: the unspoken word is 'CANCER', childhood leukaemia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTreatment fails, it is all to no avail, a little girl's life hangs in the balance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA bone marrow transplant the last chance - but no match, no donor is found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCould another relative help - perhaps her father, aunt, uncle or cousin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut who is Catherine's real father, the man who raped her mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree men were there that night; one is murdered, two are in jail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe must ask for help from these monsters who abused her mother\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese men are hardened criminals - she must visit them in prison.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe cannot bear to ask, to beg them and plead for help, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut yet she must try - it is her daughter's only chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt truly is a Devil's Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA parents worst nightmare. A small child with an incurable disease and a father who served in Vietnam and blames himself for her illness. The family is torn apart. Finally only one choice remains to save the daughter's life, a Devil's Choice.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The time is in the 1980s. Catherine, Lizzie's daughter has returned to Sydney to study. She now lives in Balmain, near where her mother grew up. She settles into life there, establishes a successful career and marries. Then she has a daughter who is the joy of both her and her husband's lives.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But when her daughter is two years old the unimaginable happens. Her daughter develops an incurable disease, advanced leukaemia. Other treatments fail. Now the only option to save her daughters life is a bone marrow transplant. They search desperately for a donor to match. But no one is found. Her daughter has an unusual tissue profile that seems to come from her Catherine's own father.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But who is her father? Catherine was conceived when her mother was raped by three men. Two of the three men who raped her mother are now in jail, destined to spend the most of their life there. The third is dead.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Can Catherine bear to make the choice and bring herself to appeal to one of these men in an attempt to save her daughter's life when she knows that even this may be futile.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is the third novel in The Old Balmain House Series. Novel two, Lizzie's Tale, tells the story of Lizzie a girl from Balmain and her struggle to keep her own daughter when pregnant at only 15 and the terrible choices she must make. This book.continues the family's story into a third generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52741301731601,"sku":"NIN9780995431393","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780995431393.jpg?v=1786129944"},{"product_id":"lizzie-s-tale-book-wilson-s-graham-9780995431379","title":"Lizzie's Tale","description":"\u003cp\u003eUpdated version of the second book in the 'Old Balmain House' Series\u003cbr\u003e Raped and reduced to working in a brothel to keep her baby, unwed, teenage mother, Lizzie, forges a new life for herself and her child in the Kimberley region of AustraliaBut can she evade her persecutors and ultimately bring to them to justice?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is a story of a girl from inner SydneyHer family is poor, her father dies when she is nine, life is hardBut her courage rises above adversityIt is story of her struggle to survive and make a life of her own, first as a prostitute, then with her child in a remote outback town\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This is the second book in the series, Old Balmain House and begins in the same house as the first book and continues part of the story of Sophie, the girl who vanished half a century agoLizzie, aged eight, meets Sophie, the girl who lived in the same bedroom as a childSophie becomes her friend\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When Lizzie turns fifteen Sophie tries to warn her not to go in a car with three older boys\u003cbr\u003e Lizzie ignores her warning and is brutally raped by these three men\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Lizzie becomes pregnant and is determined to keep her childShe leaves Sydney and goes to Melbourne, to have and keep her babyHere, penniless and desperate, she become a prostitute the only way she can support herselfShe is discovered and the authorities try to take her child\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e She flees to Broome, a small town in the furthest corner of of AustraliaHere she assumes the role of widow with a small child and settles into this friendly townHer life is good until a man from her former life finds her and threatens to expose her or harm her child\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e She runs againOn a remote desert road her car breaks downWithout water, with her six year old daughter beside her, they face death from thirstHelp comes in an unexpected wayShe takes refuge in a local aboriginal community\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Her school friend from Balmain, now a journalist, seeks retribution from the the men who raped Lizzie many years ago and have continued their ways with othersNow, as successful business men, they seek to use the law to deny justice\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53768653078801,"sku":"NIN9780995431379","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780995431379.jpg?v=1786134496"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/old-balmain-house-book-series.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}