I Knew You'd Have Brown Eyes (Finch Memoir Prize Winner 2016)

Author: Mary Tennant

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Description

I Knew You’d Have Brown Eyes charts the journey of mother and child from an unhappy parting at birth through the changing of Australia’s adoption laws and a bitter-sweet reunification that stopped, stuttered and restarted before finally becoming a relationship.


Spanning forty years and set against a backdrop of changing social attitudes in Australia, it is the story of a young girl searching for meaning, coming to terms with her guilt and grief, and learning that breaking the silence brings empowerment.

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18 May 2016 – Today at the Sydney Writers Festival publisher Rex Finch announced that retired WA nurse Mary Tennant has won the 2016 Finch Memoir Prize for her book I Knew You’d Have Brown Eyes.


Finch said, ‘This is a powerful story about the complexity of attempting to create a relationship between a birth mother and a child she gave up for adoption. Mary writes in a clear, simple style that clearly shows the hurt, vulnerability and longing of mothers who were compelled to put their children up for a forced adoption.’