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 218
... Parkerville Children's Home . She had never told any of us she'd been brought up in a home . She'd always led us to believe that she'd spent all her childhood at Ivanhoe . It wasn't that she'd actually lied about it , it was a sin of ...
... Parkerville Children's Home . She had never told any of us she'd been brought up in a home . She'd always led us to believe that she'd spent all her childhood at Ivanhoe . It wasn't that she'd actually lied about it , it was a sin of ...
Page 316
... Parkerville had parents . Some had mothers , some had fathers . You'd do anything for kids like that , because you always hoped that they might ask you to come along and share their visitors . It was hardest for the Aboriginal kids . We ...
... Parkerville had parents . Some had mothers , some had fathers . You'd do anything for kids like that , because you always hoped that they might ask you to come along and share their visitors . It was hardest for the Aboriginal kids . We ...
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... Parkerville . I couldn't understand why I couldn't live at Ivanhoe and go to school with Judy and June . You see , I hadn't really worked out how things were when your mother was a servant . I knew the family liked me , so I couldn't ...
... Parkerville . I couldn't understand why I couldn't live at Ivanhoe and go to school with Judy and June . You see , I hadn't really worked out how things were when your mother was a servant . I knew the family liked me , so I couldn't ...
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