In Moral Danger

By Barbara Biggs

Book Overview

True story autobiography of Barbara Biggs life. She was sold to a barrister by her grandmother. She was a wayward girl as a teenager. At 19 a prostitue in Japan. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0957912145
• ISBN13: 9780957912144
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Sly Ink / Floradale Production
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.

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BACK-COVER SYNOPSIS

In the car on the way from Gran's flat to his house he's telling me about my new job. He turns and looks me up and down. I start to feel creepy. "You know what else you'll be expected to do?" he says. He was 42 and one of Australia's most successful criminal barristers. She was 14, a runaway with nowhere to go. She later learned the barrister had paid her grandmother. She had been sold... So begins Barbara Bigg's inside account of the dark side of the permissive seventies. The episode is to haunt her for years. But it is only one part of an extraordinary family story told with black humour and unflinching honesty. AT 13, She runs away from a home for wayward girls at 16, she admits herself to a psychiatric hospital. at 18,she escapes Cambodia as it falls to the Khmer Rouge. at 19, she is prostitute in Japan At 21, she threw unionism into chaos making headlines around Australia And lives to tell the tale.This is it. "Bobby was black to the core-the most corrupt barrister I've ever known'- a longtime colleague of Robert Vernon