![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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