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I worry if I haven't heard from them for 24 hours. "I found myself, and do even now, holding on to my own children too tightly, holding onto my grandchildren too tightly. "We were tucked up into that family by our parents, because they were terrified … they didn't want one more lost child," she says. She says she inherited a very particular style of parenting. What Rachel Yoder and Esther Freud have learnt from the 'rage that arrives in the middle of the night'īut writing about her family was also a way for Olsson to better understand how she has raised her own family.Ineke lost the 'joy that filled my being'.Yvonne's baby son was snatched by her abusive husband.Donna Ward says there's a 'singlehood penalty' for women like her.She'd stay with him in Sydney so often, delving into his life and their family history, that a room at his apartment was even designated hers.

Writing the book, over a period of five years, also helped strengthen Ollson's relationship with Peter.

Olsson re-released an extended version of her memoir Boy, Lost earlier this year. His father continued to be violent and a new stepmother was "terribly cruel to him". Peter's upbringing in Cairns was miserable, Olsson says. "We didn't see that until Peter knocked on the door … completely out of the blue." Separated and helpless But I think these things are in our bodies," Olsson says. We were never told about Peter, we had no real idea. "It insinuated itself as secrets often do in families. But even as children they could feel the loss. She would have to wait three decades to see her son again.īy then, Yvonne had a new husband, and Olsson and three siblings had been born. She was instructed that it would be better to leave her first-born child be.

Michael had a job and a home, whereas she had fled with nothing. In Brisbane she tried to get Peter back, but the legal advice she received was that it was hopeless. Helpless, Yvonne was forced to take the train journey alone. Yvonne was forced to return to her parents in Brisbane alone, without her first-born child.