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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... George Turner for about a year , some of the older girls asked me if I'd like to go for a walk . It was really lovely in the bush . When I got tired , they took turns in giving me piggyback rides . We walked deep into the bush on the ...
... George Turner for about a year , some of the older girls asked me if I'd like to go for a walk . It was really lovely in the bush . When I got tired , they took turns in giving me piggyback rides . We walked deep into the bush on the ...
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... George Turner . All the other kids would crowd up close , hoping I'd take one of them with me . I'd jump down from the wooden fence we sat on while we waited and hoped for visitors and I'd walk slowly towards the car . I felt very shy ...
... George Turner . All the other kids would crowd up close , hoping I'd take one of them with me . I'd jump down from the wooden fence we sat on while we waited and hoped for visitors and I'd walk slowly towards the car . I felt very shy ...
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... George Turner , we'd pass some of the graves of the early pioneers and that made Good Friday seem even more depressing . Once we were back at the house , we weren't allowed to play or make a noise , it was a day of solemnity . Easter ...
... George Turner , we'd pass some of the graves of the early pioneers and that made Good Friday seem even more depressing . Once we were back at the house , we weren't allowed to play or make a noise , it was a day of solemnity . Easter ...
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