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How do you make a decision about when it's best to let go of your child? Is there a mother out there who could give me any advice? I doubt it. Having Ali taught me about unconditional love. She gave me the reason to continue living. The dreaded day arrived..."Helen Barnacle to the front gate." The sound pierced my ears and my heart. I held Ali in my arms tightly and walked towards the prison gates... "Don't cry," I kept repeating to myself. "Don't let her see me cry. I can't let her see me cry," I chanted this mantra over and over. I passed Ali through the gate to my brother Ron... "Bye-bye, Mummy," Ali said. "I love you." And with her little hand waving over Ron's shoulder, they turned and walked away. Facing 15 years in prison, the longest drug-related sentence ever meted out to a woman in Victoria, Helen Barnacle discovered she was to become a mother. It was the last thing she wanted. But this tiny helpless being gave her a new lease on life - and a reason to hope. She became the first woman allowed to keep her baby in jail beyond the age of one. But three years later she had to make the hardest decision of her life: to let her daughter go. Don't Let Her See Me Cry is the powerful and moving account of one woman's remarkable journey - from a hopeless young heroin addict facing prison with a new baby, to successful psychologist, drug counsellor, prison reform campaigner and, most importantly, mother and best friend to Ali, the daughter who gave her the courage and determination to survive. "The gripping story of a mother torn between two irreconcilable passions...love for her baby and a hunger for heroin that sweeps all in its path. Barnacle delivers a tough-minded critique of prisons while offering hope to those battling addiction. A great read." - Julie McCrossin, ABC Radio National.
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- PublisherTransworld Publishers (Division of Random House Australia)
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1863252266
- ISBN 13 9781863252263
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages368
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Photographic (illustrator). Reprint. XIV, 370 pages, the last two pages blank, acknowledgements and prologue. The text is illustrated with 16 pages of black-and-white photography between pages 242 and 243. Photographic front cover with gold and black titles to the front panel and backstreet. This is the autobiography of Helen Barnacle who was sentenced to 15 years in Fairlea Women's Prison (women's prison in Victoria, Australia) for drug-related offences. It was when she was in prison she found out that she was five months pregnant. This unexpected pregnancy became the making of the author and allowed her to straighten her life out. Slight darkening of the page edges with age, no other damage to describe. Second impression of the First Edition. Size: Trade Paperback. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Photographic. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 1863252266. ISBN/EAN: 9781863252263. Inventory No: 0274271. Seller Inventory # 0274271
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