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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... Babyland , across a wide expanse of gravel . I had been told to go and see my new House Mother , there were no goodbyes to my friends , they just sat playing on the verandah as usual . I stumbled down the front steps and began slowly ...
... Babyland , across a wide expanse of gravel . I had been told to go and see my new House Mother , there were no goodbyes to my friends , they just sat playing on the verandah as usual . I stumbled down the front steps and began slowly ...
Page 309
... Babyland , Iris , three years ten months . ' I gazed in shock at the little mound of earth beneath the small , white cross . Enid moved on , reading out the names of more babies as she went . I stood staring at Iris's grave . I suddenly ...
... Babyland , Iris , three years ten months . ' I gazed in shock at the little mound of earth beneath the small , white cross . Enid moved on , reading out the names of more babies as she went . I stood staring at Iris's grave . I suddenly ...
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... Babyland . They often needed comforting at night . They'd turn their faces into the pillow and cry , because they knew if Miss Moore heard them , she'd give them a smack . She hated being disturbed at night . I couldn't stand it if they ...
... Babyland . They often needed comforting at night . They'd turn their faces into the pillow and cry , because they knew if Miss Moore heard them , she'd give them a smack . She hated being disturbed at night . I couldn't stand it if they ...
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