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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... eyes , Curly , as she had named him , bore a close resemblance to a rare Bedlington terrier she'd read about in Pix ... eyes were , and how his only pursuits were of the basest nature . Nothing would dampen Mum's enthusiasm . It didn't ...
... eyes , Curly , as she had named him , bore a close resemblance to a rare Bedlington terrier she'd read about in Pix ... eyes were , and how his only pursuits were of the basest nature . Nothing would dampen Mum's enthusiasm . It didn't ...
Page 260
... eyes and opened them , but I couldn't see nothin ' . I closed my eyes real tight and opened them again , but I still couldn't see . I could feel my hand on my face , but I couldn't see it . I sat down and closed my eyes and stayed there ...
... eyes and opened them , but I couldn't see nothin ' . I closed my eyes real tight and opened them again , but I still couldn't see . I could feel my hand on my face , but I couldn't see it . I sat down and closed my eyes and stayed there ...
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... eyes , ' he said , ' you have the same eyes . I would recognise those eyes anywhere . ' Then , apparently , he disappeared into the crowd . I'll never forget the look on Bill's face when she asked him who the chap could be . He went as ...
... eyes , ' he said , ' you have the same eyes . I would recognise those eyes anywhere . ' Then , apparently , he disappeared into the crowd . I'll never forget the look on Bill's face when she asked him who the chap could be . He went as ...
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