Incredible book!

sent to a friend.

Received in the mail today as RABCK from grooble. What a lovely surprise!

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Barbara Biggs is a former journalist and author of a two-part autobiography, In Moral Danger and The Road Home, launched in May 2004 by Peter Hollingworth.

When Biggs was just 14, she was a troubled runaway with nowhere to go. Along the way, she encountered one Bob Vernon, a 42-year-old criminal lawyer. Vernon paid Barbara's grandmother to let her work for him as a live-in babysitter. Well, as things turned out, in effect, Barbara had been sold to Vernon, including sexually. This is a family story, which is told with black humour and honesty.

Biggs is certainly a strong and focussed woman, and her work on behalf of abused children is a fitting response to her traumatic early life.

I read this some time ago but did not get around to journalling it. In the menatime, I have loaned it out to two non-BC friends who have both found it inspiring - as did I.

I'm sending this off to Adelaide for the 2006 Australian BookCrossing Convention - back to whence it came.

Thanks Grooble!

Received with much appreciation for the 3rd Australian BookCrossing Convention, Adelaide, Australia, 20-22 October 2006.

Thanks :)