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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... Dad enjoyed crays . It was a happy time then ; crays and tomato , Dad and me . I knew some of Dad's tastes were a legacy of the war . That particular one from the time Italian partisans had sheltered him from the Germans . I knew all ...
... Dad enjoyed crays . It was a happy time then ; crays and tomato , Dad and me . I knew some of Dad's tastes were a legacy of the war . That particular one from the time Italian partisans had sheltered him from the Germans . I knew all ...
Page 31
... Dad in the public bar . Someone had put her up on the counter and said , ' All right , who owns this one ? ' It was so unlike Jill and , in Dad's eyes , an unforgivable sin . The pub was his domain . He felt she'd shown him up in front ...
... Dad in the public bar . Someone had put her up on the counter and said , ' All right , who owns this one ? ' It was so unlike Jill and , in Dad's eyes , an unforgivable sin . The pub was his domain . He felt she'd shown him up in front ...
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... Dad's death , Mum found out the contents of the Coroner's Report . The verdict was suicide . Mum was very upset . She had told us all that the war had killed Dad . She'd fixed it into our minds that Dad's death was due to something ...
... Dad's death , Mum found out the contents of the Coroner's Report . The verdict was suicide . Mum was very upset . She had told us all that the war had killed Dad . She'd fixed it into our minds that Dad's death was due to something ...
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