IVY, Refusing to Hate

A moving and essential narrative of survival, injustice, and the human spirit — told through one woman’s forgotten story. ‘She was punished for being neglected. She survived to be heard.’ ‘From stolen childhood to stolen voice — Ivy’s story will break and lift your heart.’ In 1945, 12-year-old Ivy Getchell was cast into the grim confines of Parramatta Girls Training School, deemed a victim of ‘neglect and moral danger.’ Stripped of her dignity and longing for her stolen mother’s locket, Ivy’s on