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Struck by Lightning: The Story of Garry Lynch


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Struck by Lightning is the life story of Garry Lynch, told in his own words. Garry Lynch is the father of Anita Cobby, the nurse who was brutally murdered in Sydney, Australia in 1986. Garry's story begins in 1918 and traces his early life as a runaway child in the Great Depression to being an airframe fitter in the Second World War; then afterwards as a bohemian artist in Sydney, to a knock-about adventurer in the remote Kimberley region of north Western Australia. Two days after his daughter was murdered, Garry was catapulted into the public arena where he has stayed for the past ten years. As a victim of crime, he was asked to become a member of the Serious Offenders Review Council. Between 1990 and 1995 he was to meet some of Australia's most notorious murderers in the Council's work of recommending appropriate classifications for serious offenders within the Corrective Services. During this time Garry became a founding member of a Homicide Victims Support Group and continues to spend much of his life helping others who have had a loved one murdered. Struck By Lightning is a deeply moving stpry of personal change and spiritual growth, which shows ho

Table of Contents:
Photographs Introduction Part I: The Journey There Part II: A Golden Age Part III: Holding Out the Olive Branch Postscript Appendix: Some Issues

About the Author :
Gina Lennox has written and produced for film, radio and multi-media since 1978. Her first book of oral histories was People of the Cross, co-authored with Frances Rush, and published in 1993. She has run many community-based creative writing workshops and presently teaches creative writing at Mulawa Correctional Centre for Women.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781864480795
  • Publisher: Allen & Unwin
  • Publisher Imprint: Allen & Unwin
  • Height: 198 mm
  • No of Pages: 264
  • Width: 130 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1864480793
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jun 1996
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Story of Garry Lynch


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