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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... began to realise what a difficult task Dad had trying to manoeuvre the van around on a tiny section of bitumen . He had a rough gravel track ahead of him , a cliff face on one side and a deep bush valley on the other . We all hung on ...
... began to realise what a difficult task Dad had trying to manoeuvre the van around on a tiny section of bitumen . He had a rough gravel track ahead of him , a cliff face on one side and a deep bush valley on the other . We all hung on ...
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... began to pester her incessantly about our background . Mum was a hard nut to crack and consistently denied Jill's assertion . She even told me that Nan had come out on a boat from India in the early days . In fact , she was so ...
... began to pester her incessantly about our background . Mum was a hard nut to crack and consistently denied Jill's assertion . She even told me that Nan had come out on a boat from India in the early days . In fact , she was so ...
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... began to notice a change in Nan . Not a miraculous change , but a change just the same . Her interests began to extend beyond who was in the telephone box opposite our house , to world affairs . Nan had always watched the news every ...
... began to notice a change in Nan . Not a miraculous change , but a change just the same . Her interests began to extend beyond who was in the telephone box opposite our house , to world affairs . Nan had always watched the news every ...
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