The Pencil Case

A hit on the head with a pencil case began Paul Wilson's lifelong battle against the system and the pencil-pushers who tormented him... but nothing could break his indomitable spirit.Paul was a fifth generation, native-born white Australian, and a stolen child. Bureaucrats stole him twice. So-called 'women of God' and a misguided carer stole his identity, his heritage and his self-respect.Paul's dad knew there was only way to survive against injustice. It took Paul sixty years to learn.Join Paul as he takes his lawyer on a journey through time, from the post-war home of a poverty-stricken Australian family, to a cold, harsh Catholic Orphanage, into foster homes and an Anglican Boys' Home, to an army training school for boys, and through an eventful adult life desperately searching for identity, acceptance, love and peace.His story is one you will read between tears and fits of rage, but also one that will reassure you of the beauty and strength of the human spirit and the power of...