Someone to Watch Over Me
Taylor, Patricia / Ros, Mills
This is the true story of a plucky young girl who suffered an extremely traumatic and cruel childhood. Her name was Shirley Gilfillan and she was born in Adelaide, South Australia in 1925 to a mentally disturbed mother and a weak and inadequate father. She was abandoned by him at three years of age and then permanently blinded in her left eye by her psychotic and alcoholic mother at the tender age of four. Her neighbours feared for the child's...