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 144
... chip heater in the bathroom and the way Nan boiled up all our clothes in the copper . The copper was good in that your clothes always came out clean , if a trifle shrunken . What was not good was the fact that numerous cigarette burns ...
... chip heater in the bathroom and the way Nan boiled up all our clothes in the copper . The copper was good in that your clothes always came out clean , if a trifle shrunken . What was not good was the fact that numerous cigarette burns ...
Page 146
... chips into the heater , and leapt back under again . The issue finally came to a head one Saturday afternoon when a friend of mine asked if he could shower at our place before going out that evening . Coming from a wealthy Victorian ...
... chips into the heater , and leapt back under again . The issue finally came to a head one Saturday afternoon when a friend of mine asked if he could shower at our place before going out that evening . Coming from a wealthy Victorian ...
Page 168
... chip heater we'd had at home , and the place was infested with tiny sandfleas . After living in there for a few weeks , we also discovered that there were rats residing underneath the floorboards . For some reason , none of this seemed ...
... chip heater we'd had at home , and the place was infested with tiny sandfleas . After living in there for a few weeks , we also discovered that there were rats residing underneath the floorboards . For some reason , none of this seemed ...
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