My PlaceIn 1982 Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmother's birthplace. What started out as a tentative search for information about her family, turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. My Placebeings with the experiences of Sally's own life, growing up in suburban Perth in the fifties and sixties. Through the memories and images of her childhood and adolescence, vague hints and echoes begin to emerge, hidden knowledge is uncovered, and a fascinating story unfolds. It is a deeply moving account of a search for truth, into which a whole family is gradually drawn, finally freeing the tongues of the author's mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories. |
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... Drake- Brockman , my father's second wife , and asked her if she knew my age . She said that I could have been born around 1893-1894 . Later , her daughter Judy wrote to me and said I could have been born before that . So I guess I have ...
... Drake- Brockman , my father's second wife , and asked her if she knew my age . She said that I could have been born around 1893-1894 . Later , her daughter Judy wrote to me and said I could have been born before that . So I guess I have ...
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... Drake - Brockman said I could sleep with Daisy in her room . When Howden came home , he came straight to Daisy's room . He knocked on the door and came in and shook me by the hand real hard . He hadn't changed . He looked older , more ...
... Drake - Brockman said I could sleep with Daisy in her room . When Howden came home , he came straight to Daisy's room . He knocked on the door and came in and shook me by the hand real hard . He hadn't changed . He looked older , more ...
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... Drake - Brockmans , I don't know . I think Alice Drake - Brockman thought she was doing a good thing sending me to Parkerville . Sometimes , she'd come up and bring Judy , June and Dick with her for a picnic . That was always in the ...
... Drake - Brockmans , I don't know . I think Alice Drake - Brockman thought she was doing a good thing sending me to Parkerville . Sometimes , she'd come up and bring Judy , June and Dick with her for a picnic . That was always in the ...
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