The Gripping Biography of a Child’s Courage and a Dream - Enough to Transcend Brutal Beginnings

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(Free-Press-Release.com) August 5, 2009 -- The Inconvenient Child , a just released Biography of childhood abuse, abandonment, beatings, maternal rejection, scandalous treatment under the guise of Government care in notorious Australian juvenile institutions and life on the streets of red light district Kings Cross Sydney, are just part of the extraordinary tapestry that is the life of successful Australian singer and entertainer, Sharyn Killens.

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The Gripping Biography of a Child’s Courage and a Dream - Enough to Transcend Brutal Beginnings

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This is not your usual celebrity Biography. The Inconvenient Child is a gritty account of Sharyn Killens’ life, beginning as an abandoned Australian black child and her struggle to survive in an often hostile white society, her success as entertainer Sharyn Crystal then her quest to find her African American father on the other side of the world.

The story begins when the baby Sharyn, is rescued from squalid foster care by visiting champion African American boxer Freddie Dawson and taken to live in a ‘party house’ in the red light district of Sydney’s Kings Cross. The nightclubs of the Trocadero and the Booker T Washington Club featured in the life of her blue-eyed blond Australian mother, whose illicit liaison with the handsome black African American serviceman produced Sharyn. But illegitimate children, particularly of mixed race, were no trophy in post World War II Australia. So her mother did all she could to distance herself from her inconvenient child.

“This gripping biography is a mixture of shameful and dehumanizing treatment combined with a rich combination of gutsy and courageous choices,” says author Lindsay Lewis, “though sometimes they are ill advised choices on Sharyn’s part. What drives her is her undying love for the mother who showed her little or no love and a visceral urge to find her identity.”

Her desperate quest to find her roots catapulted her into a journey of vulnerability and degradation exacerbated ten fold by the clashes over the secret her mother refused to reveal – the identity of her father.

But as irony would have it, the challenges of her life produced qualities of determination, courage, persistence and perseverance.

Her salvation lay in music and her overwhelming dream to become a singer.

It took her on a journey through the night clubs of Sydney and luxury Cruise ships throughout the Pacific.

Her final triumph over the cards life dealt her, transported her to New York, Los Angeles then North Carolina. How she gets there and what she discovers en route, makes for riveting reading, charting some of the most shameful periods in Australia's history in terms of its treatment of marginalized groups.

The Inconvenient Child is set to alarm many who consider us a tolerant society. But most of all it stands as a testament to the courage and passion of one woman who so easily could have faded into oblivion.

The Inconvenient Child is available at TheInconvenientChild.com , Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com and at most large Internet book retailers

More information can be found online at http://www.TheInconvenientChild.com

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