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Lech Blaine grew up in Queensland, the youngest in a busy family of seven, his parents: working class publicans in small country towns.
Tom and Lenore Blaine wanted a big family, but when that didn't happen naturally - they fostered four children.
Then along came Lech, their only biological child, who capped off their warm, energetic, loving family.
Three of his siblings, John, Steve and Hannah, came to the family permanently when they were young.
Their birth parents were religious zealots who had met in the psychiatric ward of a Sydney hospital.
In his remarkable new book, Lech Blaine details the dogged attempts over decades of that couple to get their children back and the impact this had on everyone.
