Surviving Maggie: An Australian Story by John Fingleton

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, with front cover tail right corner now protected with book tape. Small pen mark on contents page. Pages are sunned. Body text and binding are still very good.

The powerful true story of a man who would inspire one son to make a film about him - Swimming Upstream, starring Geoffrey Rush, and the other to uncover his past, warts and all, in this unforgettable tale.

By the age of eleven, when Harold was not out desperately foraging for food for himself and his sisters, he was trying to avoid the regular beatings doled out by his drunken and abusive mother, Maggie, until he was forcibly removed to a state orphanage.

The treatment he endured there and from Maggie haunted him forever. From abused child to rebellious orphan, larrikin street fighter to gifted sportsman, prisoner to alcoholic, from unlikely role model to a group of street kids to murder suspect. Finally, a man transformed by the love of a strong woman determined that his children would have the opportunities he never had. Harold Fingleton's heartbreaking and powerful story will stay with you long after the last page.