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Belinda Robinson is the daughter of famous New Zealand playwright Bruce Mason and the obstetrician Diana Mason.
She is the eldest of three children, who grew up in Kilbirnie, Wellington, where their parents were well known in literary and medical circles.
What wasn't known to anyone, was that the nanny employed by the family for eight years was abusing Belinda, her brother and sister - physically, psychologically and possibly sexually.
In 1962, aged 13, she told her mother what had been happening, at the same time as her younger brother revealed the abuse to their father.
Six decades later, Belinda Robinson has written a memoir about that dreadful eight years, and how she and the family tried to heal afterwards.
She also writes about her discovery - much later in life - that her father had been gay; and interrogates her parents' marriage and her own thorny relationship with her mother.
Belinda speaks with Kathryn Ryan about Unforgetting: A Memoir.
