Black Lightning: Dymphna Cusack

From the pen of the author of Come In, Spinner, this book was reviewed in 1964 as 'Compelling...unusual...highly disturbing.' Tempe Caxton, model and TV personality, loses her job at forty-five. Divorced by her husband and deserted by her lover, she attempts suicide and fails. Embittered and apathetic, she learns through her dead son's diaries that he had married a beautiful Aboriginal girl, and the revelation opens her eyes to the sordid realities of the social apartheid in Australia in the Sixties. Single-handed, she fights for justice for her newly-found grand-daughter and comes to realise that the happiest women are those without a past - only a future.