Ten Pounds for Paradise

<p>Maureen's memoir is a story of migration family tragedy resilience humour and finding ‎peace and fulfilment in the natural world.‎</p><p>The eldest of four children from a working class family living in a sleepy corner of South ‎Wales she experiences the death of her mother and the shock of life with a new stepmother ‎who was emotionally ill-equipped to deal with four grieving children.‎</p><p>The family of ten children travel to Australia to follow her father's dream of living in ‎Paradise and Maureen writes with candour about her difficult childhood and adolescence as ‎well as life in Wales and her new home as she grows up marries and eventually takes charge ‎of her own life.‎</p>