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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... Glad , ' he said , ' a good - looking woman like you , in your position , there's only one thing ya can do . Find a bloke and live with him . If ya lucky , he might take the kids as well . ' Another uncle turned up a few weeks later and ...
... Glad , ' he said , ' a good - looking woman like you , in your position , there's only one thing ya can do . Find a bloke and live with him . If ya lucky , he might take the kids as well . ' Another uncle turned up a few weeks later and ...
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... Glad ... are you in there ? ' Mum invariably replied , ' Of course I am , you stupid old woman . ' ' Now don't get nasty with me , Glad , ' Nan responded . ' You always get nasty with me when you're in the toilet . I just wanted to make ...
... Glad ... are you in there ? ' Mum invariably replied , ' Of course I am , you stupid old woman . ' ' Now don't get nasty with me , Glad , ' Nan responded . ' You always get nasty with me when you're in the toilet . I just wanted to make ...
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... glad it was you and not me , ' she said . ' I couldn't have said what you did . I'd have let them think I was guilty . I can't stick up for myself like that . ' ' I don't know how I did it , either , ' I replied . ' But you know what ...
... glad it was you and not me , ' she said . ' I couldn't have said what you did . I'd have let them think I was guilty . I can't stick up for myself like that . ' ' I don't know how I did it , either , ' I replied . ' But you know what ...
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