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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... Molly Skinner , the author , owned a house just behind the hotel and she said Mum could pay rent and live with her 343.
... Molly Skinner , the author , owned a house just behind the hotel and she said Mum could pay rent and live with her 343.
Page 344
... Molly Skinner was always pleased to see me . Every Saturday afternoon , Mum would give me threepence to go to the pictures with Noreen and Doreen . We had great fun . All the kids from school would be there and we'd yell and scream ...
... Molly Skinner was always pleased to see me . Every Saturday afternoon , Mum would give me threepence to go to the pictures with Noreen and Doreen . We had great fun . All the kids from school would be there and we'd yell and scream ...
Page 348
... Molly Skinner sold her house , so we had to find somewhere else to live . We managed to rent another place near the Ocean Beach Hotel . It was a nice little weatherboard house . Mum and I began to disagree a lot more . I had bought ...
... Molly Skinner sold her house , so we had to find somewhere else to live . We managed to rent another place near the Ocean Beach Hotel . It was a nice little weatherboard house . Mum and I began to disagree a lot more . I had bought ...
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