Reckoning: The forgotten children and their quest for justice
William Heinemann, $34.99 pb, 360 pp
History
An imperial investment
The fight for abused children at Fairbridge
by Jacqueline Kent •
In 1959, David Hill, aged twelve, left England and sailed on the Strathaird to Australia with two of his three brothers. Like thousands of children before them the Hill boys were bound for a Fairbridge farm school. Like thousands of children before them, they had come from a poor background, with a struggling single mother who believed that Fairbridge would give her boys a better education and greater opportunities in life than she possibly could.
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