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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... Alice Drake - Brockman was in a nearby nursing home . She was ninety - three and in the best of health . Aunty June took me to the home and explained who I was and why I was there . ' You look a lot like your mother , ' Alice said ...
... Alice Drake - Brockman was in a nearby nursing home . She was ninety - three and in the best of health . Aunty June took me to the home and explained who I was and why I was there . ' You look a lot like your mother , ' Alice said ...
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... Alice , it dawned on me how different Australian society must have been in those days . There would have been a ... Alice's attitudes from my standpoint in the nineteen eighties . On my return from Sydney , Mum met me at the airport ...
... Alice , it dawned on me how different Australian society must have been in those days . There would have been a ... Alice's attitudes from my standpoint in the nineteen eighties . On my return from Sydney , Mum met me at the airport ...
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... Alice had kicked me out again . Aah , I was silly to believe her . She owed me back wages , got me to work for nothing , then kicked me out . I was just used up . I been workin ' for that family all those years , right since I was a ...
... Alice had kicked me out again . Aah , I was silly to believe her . She owed me back wages , got me to work for nothing , then kicked me out . I was just used up . I been workin ' for that family all those years , right since I was a ...
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