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Fiction featuring Care Experience

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The Echoes

Evie Wyld

2024

The Echoes (2024) by British-Australian writer, Evie Wyld, includes references to the Stolen Generation.

Hannah is an Australian living in London and estranged from her family. She and her sister, Rachel, grew up in Western Australia close to where a ‘reform school’ for Aboriginal Australian children once existed.

The novel reflects changing attitudes to Aboriginal children stolen from their parents and often renamed.

Hannah’s mother, for example, wants to believe the couple running the school were well-intentioned.

The elderly son of that couple knows that many of the children died and were buried without markers.

Children and young people in social care, and those who have left, are often subject to stigmatisation and discrimination. Being stigmatised and discriminated against can impact negatively on mental health and wellbeing not only during the care experience but often for many years after too. The project aims to contribute towards changing community attitudes towards care experienced people as a group. See glossary HERE


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