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In Moral Danger :
A gripping insight into a life that at times takes your breath away. Confronting, shocking, a book that will not let you put it down!
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In the car on the way from Gran's flat to his house, he's telling me about my new job. He turns and looks me up and down. I start to feel creepy. 'You know what else you'll be expected to do?' he says.
He was 42 and one of Australia's most successful criminal barristers. She was 14, a runaway with nowhere to go. She later learnt the barrister had paid her grandmother. She had been sold...
So begins Barbara Biggs's inside account of the dark side of the permissive seventies. The episode is to haunt her for years. But it is only one part of an extraordinary family story told with black humour and unflinching honesty.
At 13, she runs away from a home for wayward girls.
At 16, she admites herself to a psychiatric hospital.
At 18, she escapes Cambodia as it falls to the Khmer Rouge.
At 19, she is a prostitute in Japan.
At 21, she threw unionism into chaos making headlinges around Australia.
And lives to tell the tale. This is it.
'Bobby was black to the core - the most corrupt barrister I've ever known.' - a longtime barrister colleague of Robert Vernon.
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