This accidental present : a story of two families / Ross Wilson

"In 1951, Kath Walker (later Oodgeroo Noonuccal) became the live-in housekeeper for the family of Sir Raphael and Lady Cilento, an illustrious Brisbane medical family with connections to the United Nations, and - through Diane Cilento and her husband Sean Connery - global show business. In 1953, Kath had a son - Vivian - with the scion of the Cilento clan, Dr Raff Cilento Jnr, who didn't acknowledge his paternity. Oodgeroo became the best-selling poet in Australia , and an important Aboriginal activist - while Raff Jnr would become a neurosurgeon in New York. Vivian was a renowned choreographer and dancer in Sydney and London, and for a while, part-owner of the world's largest gay disco in West Hollywood. Yet at the heart of the lifelong relationship between these families was a secret. On her deathbed, Oodgeroo wanted to know whether Lady Cilento ever knew that Vivian was her grandson."--Back cover.