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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... home in the car , I described my trip in detail to Mum . I never mentioned her being in Parkerville Children's Home . I wasn't sure how to tackle her about that . The following day , I left with Paul and the children to spend two weeks ...
... home in the car , I described my trip in detail to Mum . I never mentioned her being in Parkerville Children's Home . I wasn't sure how to tackle her about that . The following day , I left with Paul and the children to spend two weeks ...
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... Parkerville Children's Home . She had never told any of us she'd been brought up in a home . She'd always led us to believe that she'd spent all her childhood at Ivanhoe . It wasn't that she'd actually lied about it , it was a sin of ...
... Parkerville Children's Home . She had never told any of us she'd been brought up in a home . She'd always led us to believe that she'd spent all her childhood at Ivanhoe . It wasn't that she'd actually lied about it , it was a sin of ...
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... Parkerville and took a lot of Aboriginal children with her . I was very sad , because I lost a lot of my friends . There were a few lightly coloured Aboriginal boys left - * Sister Kate an Anglican nun who set up a home for part ...
... Parkerville and took a lot of Aboriginal children with her . I was very sad , because I lost a lot of my friends . There were a few lightly coloured Aboriginal boys left - * Sister Kate an Anglican nun who set up a home for part ...
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