“I mean, I sort of compare it, even though I have absolutely no experience of it, but I presume that when a mother is giving birth to a child that’s longed for and loved whilst growing within her, she must have this incredible surge of love when she finally lays eyes on her infant. “It really was just like that,” she recalls. “It was love at first sight”, Sue wrote in her book. But, due to government hurdles, it was another 16 years before Sue and John met Saroo at the airport in Melbourne. Even though they could have biological children, Sue and John believed adoption gave them a greater capacity to accomplish good. “I didn’t realise at the time, but… gave me hope that there was a direction, there was a purpose and that was the start of it,” she recalls.įour years later, Sue met her now-husband John and the pair married a year later and moved to Hobart, Tasmania, with plans of someday adopting. “My story, my early years were the foundation of my decision,” she tells Starts at 60, adding her decision to adopt Saroo, and some years later Mantosh, was also inspired by a vision she’d had at age 12 in which she saw a brown-skinned child walking towards her. In her book, Sue described her early years as very isolating and depressing. Despite her father’s success (although this didn’t last), he was not a good provider, so Sue, her two sisters Maria and Christine, and late mother Julie lived off rations. Her father, Josef ran a giant wrecking yard from their home in north-west Tasmania - which consisted of rusting car shells, engine parts and tyres. Sue didn’t grow up in a ‘normal’ household. Now, Sue, 66, has written her own autobiography Lioness, which hit bookstands this week, detailing her own traumatic childhood as the daughter of WWII refugees from Hungary and Poland, and how it shaped her view of motherhood and adoption. The heartfelt drama Lion - which told the story of how Saroo became lost at the age of five in India, was subsequently adopted by Sue and her husband John, and at the age of 30 tracked down his birth mother using Google Earth - became an Australian box office success and won multiple awards, but most importantly, won the hearts of people all over the world. Sue Brierley was propelled into the public eye after her adoptive son Saroo’s autobiography A Long Way Home was made into a major film.
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