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Helen Cummings Helen Cummings i(A139391 works by)
Born: Established: Newcastle, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
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Helen Cummings worked with the Family Court between 1985 and 2010, first on the counter in the registry, later as an associate to a federal magistrate. She has two children from her first marriage, and one from her second. One of these children is Hollywood actress Sarah Wynter.

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y separately published work icon Blood Vows : A Haunting Memoir of Marriage and Murder Scoresby : Five Mile Press , 2011 Z1771877 2011 single work autobiography In 1970, a pretty young woman called Helen Cummings married a handsome doctor called Stuart Wynter. But instead of being a marriage made in heaven, it was the beginning of a hellish existence of spiralling abuse that ended six years later when she escaped with her two young children. Except it was not the end at all because Dr Wynter remarried – and this woman and her child weren’t able to escape, and Helen wasn’t able to help. In this brave memoir, Helen Cummings relates an idyllic childhood growing up in 1960s Australia and looks back on a marriage that nearly killed her and her children. Nowadays Helen is ‘the mother of a famous daughter and the daughter of a famous mother’, but she also had to come to terms with being the former wife of a murderer, and who was powerless to help his victims (Publisher website).
2012 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best True Crime Book
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