![]() ![]() The White Girl gives insight into The Stolen Generations. ![]() When trouble comes to Deane in the form of a new policeman, Odette realises she has to get herself & Sissy out of town fast. Odette has lost a father, a husband & a daughter. In 1960s Australia welfare authorities are removing Aboriginal children, especially fair skinned children, from their families. From birth Sissy’s light skin makes it clear that her father was a white man, but Lila has never disclosed his name. Her own daughter, Lila, left when Sissy was a year old. In Deane lives Odette Brown, an Aboriginal woman who has care of her young granddaughter, Sissy. By the end I felt it could have been almost anywhere in Australia’s interior. ![]() I googled, then, when I realised the town was an invention, I listened for clues in the story for anything that gave away the state or territory. The White Girl is set in a fictional town of Deane. I picked up his new novel, The White Girl, after reading this wonderful piece in The Guardian. Tony Birch is an indigenous Australian author. ![]()
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