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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... Bill's mother was always sending Bill off to the Goldfields to haul his father out of the pubs and bring him home . Bill's father gambled away a fortune , and had Bill drinking beer from his early teenage years . When Bill was fourteen ...
... Bill's mother was always sending Bill off to the Goldfields to haul his father out of the pubs and bring him home . Bill's father gambled away a fortune , and had Bill drinking beer from his early teenage years . When Bill was fourteen ...
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Sally Morgan. herded everyone back inside , Bill and Abercrombe hid in the ditch till nightfall . Abercrombe wanted to head south in the hope of meeting up with the Yanks , but Bill talked him into going north to Switzerland . They ...
Sally Morgan. herded everyone back inside , Bill and Abercrombe hid in the ditch till nightfall . Abercrombe wanted to head south in the hope of meeting up with the Yanks , but Bill talked him into going north to Switzerland . They ...
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... Bill was all right . If it hadn't been for that vision , I'd never have coped with Bill's funeral . Bill's mother didn't attend , she disagreed with the cremation , even though it was what Bill had always said he wanted . Every time a ...
... Bill was all right . If it hadn't been for that vision , I'd never have coped with Bill's funeral . Bill's mother didn't attend , she disagreed with the cremation , even though it was what Bill had always said he wanted . Every time a ...
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