> Skip to content
  • Published: 3 July 2006
  • ISBN: 9781742281179
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 324
Categories:

Magician's Son



An unflinchingly honest, thought-provoking account of growing up without a historySandy McCutcheon, one of Australia's most popular national broadcasters, was adopted into a respectable, well-off family, but it was one in which he never felt at home. His yearning for acceptance was matched by an instinct to rebel, and by frustration with his parents' refusal to acknowledge his adoption. He did not learn the truth about his birth for fifty years, and when he did the circumstances were so convoluted as to defy belief. Eventually he discovered a family with uncanny parallels between its generations, where history has been repeated not once but several times.Sandy's extraordinary story sheds light on things that affect us whether we're adopted or not: on how memory helps shape our sense of self, on the importance of not harbouring resentment, on the way the heart knows things that the mind does not. And the way life never stops delivering surprises . . .

  • Published: 3 July 2006
  • ISBN: 9781742281179
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 324
Categories:

About the author

Sandy McCutcheon

Sandy McCutcheon is the host of ABC Radio National's Australia Talks Back and Australia Talks Books. He is also a playwright and the author of several thrillers, a children's book and the memoir The Magician's Son. He owns a house in Fes in Morocco but lives in Brisbane with his wife, the photographer and writer Suzanna Clarke. Sandy is interested in absolutely everything, but above all, he enjoys a good, spirited conversation.