Episode 2067: SHADOWS OVER THE SUN by Giselle J. Robin - a podcast by Ric Bratton

SHADOWS OVER THE SUN by Giselle J. Robin

This compulsively readable autobiography traces the journey of a remarkably courageous woman from a childhood under Nazi Germany, through her marriage and then emigration to Australia to make a new start by developing an organic winery in McLaren Flat in South Australia. After traumatic experiences she has had to battle with bipolar mental disorder. Giselle tells her story in flawless prose and with compelling honesty. This is the story of a strong woman adding to the growing literature on women’s lives. The story takes you in from the first page and never lets you go.

Giselle J. Robin was born in 1935 and grew up in the second world war in Hamburg/Germany.
After high school Giselle was accepted as one of the first ten women for a public service career,
where she attended the college for public service administration and managed large government projects successfully.

In 1964 Giselle emigrated with her Hungarian husband, Gabor Berenyi, to South Australia, where they founded the first organic winery in Australia. Gabor was the winemaker and Giselle the manager.

They became a family in 1970 by adopting their son Robert. Their marriage gradually deteriorated. Giselle left the winery after their divorce without money in 1976 and started another Life with a new partner. He was killed in a tractor accident a year later.

Through these episodes of lost dreams Giselle had to deal with the onset of bipolar disorder, which led to many challenges, but in spite of that, she was four times self employed: in the
winery, with a gift shop, with a plant nursery in Peterborough, South Australia and as a self publisher.

She won the 'Pinnacle Book Achievement Award for 2017' from NABE in the USA for 'Shadows
over the Sun'.
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