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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Page 191
... Judy's nursemaid . Judy was quite sick as a child . I suppose that drew them closer together . ' ' How come Nan was their nursemaid and not someone else ? ' ' Oh , I don't know . I told you Nan came from the station that Judy's father ...
... Judy's nursemaid . Judy was quite sick as a child . I suppose that drew them closer together . ' ' How come Nan was their nursemaid and not someone else ? ' ' Oh , I don't know . I told you Nan came from the station that Judy's father ...
Page 195
... Judy's dawned , and was too beautiful a day for me to fail . Mum had agreed to drop me in Cottesloe , where Judy was now living , and mind the children while we had our talk . ' Can't I come , Mum ? ' Amber wailed as we pulled up out ...
... Judy's dawned , and was too beautiful a day for me to fail . Mum had agreed to drop me in Cottesloe , where Judy was now living , and mind the children while we had our talk . ' Can't I come , Mum ? ' Amber wailed as we pulled up out ...
Page 198
... Judy . I suppose I'd better be going . Mum will be here any minute . She's picking me up . ' ' You know who you ... Judy's mother , Alice . ' She must be in her nineties by now , ' I said . ' Do you think she'd mind talking to me ...
... Judy . I suppose I'd better be going . Mum will be here any minute . She's picking me up . ' ' You know who you ... Judy's mother , Alice . ' She must be in her nineties by now , ' I said . ' Do you think she'd mind talking to me ...
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