![]() ![]() As so many other mothers can attest, women in this situation in the late 1940s and 1950s had no hope of gaining custody of their children in this situation. Yvonne tried to find Peter and to claim custody of him, but Peter’s father had clearly and aggressively asserted his desire for custody. Yvonne’s husband entered the train and snatched Peter from her arms. ![]() Olsson’s mother, Yvonne had a short, unhappy marriage. This book has impressed many people but it was a difficult story to tell. Yesterday the Australian Women Writers’ Challenge published an interview I did with Kristina Olsson in which she gives insights into how she wrote her book. It won Kristina Olsson the nonfiction prize at the Queensland Literary Awards and has been shortlisted many times. They are exposed in her book, Boy, Lost: A Family Memoir. Kristina Olsson and her family have done the difficult task of unravelling their family secrets. These secrets are often about events that occurred before we were born and now that the holders of those secrets are dying the story of these tragedies becomes even more difficult to retrieve. Anyone who researches their family history of the twentieth century is inevitably confronted by a wall of silence about something or other. ![]()
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