Australian Adoptive Memoir is a rare genre of life writing. We encourage you to read, share and ask your local library to source these important works of truth telling. ​
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Many of the works written within this genre are independently published and some may be out of print.
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Please give this list to your local library and ask them to stock the available titles.
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Please get in touch if there is a memoir missing from this list as we do know there are many works being crafted right now!
Tell No-One Brendan Watkins 2023 Crazy Bastard: A memoir of forced adoption – Derek Pedley/Abe Maddison 2023
Child in the Clouds. A memoir in verse about adoption trauma. Julia Kaylock (Vale) 2021
Lifting the lid: A memoir of Adoption – Karen Ingham 2021
Dirty Laundry. The crimes a country tried to hide – Lily Arthur 2021
Tree of Strangers. – Barbara Sumner 2020 (NZ filmmaker & journalist)
Ten Doors Down – Robert Tickner 2020
Little One – Paul Papathanasiou 2019
Heartlines: The year I met my Mother – Susannah McFarlane & Robin Leuba 2016
I knew you’d have brown eyes – Mary Tennant 2016
Adoption Deception: A personal and professional journey- Penny Mackieson 2015
Run for your life – Jill Jolliffe 2014
Shadows in Paradise: A Memoir – Carolann Dowding 2013
A long way home - Saroo Brierley 2013
Surviving Secrets – Margaret Watson 2010
Shadows in Paradise: A Memoir – Carolann Dowding 2013
Delinquent Angel – Diana Georgeff 2011
Coming Home to Truth – Judith Roseboom 2010 (self-published booklet – out of print)
The Lucy Family Alphabet- Judith Lucy 2008
