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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... close resemblance to a rare Bedlington terrier she'd read about in Pix magazine . Mum received support for her views from an unexpected quarter ; our neighbour . He commented to Mum that Curly was a rare sight . Mum had mistaken this ...
... close resemblance to a rare Bedlington terrier she'd read about in Pix magazine . Mum received support for her views from an unexpected quarter ; our neighbour . He commented to Mum that Curly was a rare sight . Mum had mistaken this ...
Page 291
... close , and others , too , then there's some that you're related to but not close , if you get what I mean . You still related to them , though ... ' We stayed the night at Yandeearra . The following morning , Billy and Dolly said ...
... close , and others , too , then there's some that you're related to but not close , if you get what I mean . You still related to them , though ... ' We stayed the night at Yandeearra . The following morning , Billy and Dolly said ...
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... close . He treated me like his sister . I loved it when they all came up , because the other kids were so envious . There was a lot of status in knowing someone who had a car . I thought I'd burst for joy when I saw the black Chev creep ...
... close . He treated me like his sister . I loved it when they all came up , because the other kids were so envious . There was a lot of status in knowing someone who had a car . I thought I'd burst for joy when I saw the black Chev creep ...
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