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 196
... father is ? ' ' Your mother knows who her father is . ' ' No , she doesn't . She wants to know and Nan won't tell her . ' ' I'm sure I told your mother at one time who her father was . ' ' She doesn't know and she'd really like to ...
... father is ? ' ' Your mother knows who her father is . ' ' No , she doesn't . She wants to know and Nan won't tell her . ' ' I'm sure I told your mother at one time who her father was . ' ' She doesn't know and she'd really like to ...
Page 197
... father taught her how to sew . She could design anything . ' Our conversation continued for another half an hour or so . I kept thinking , had Mum lied ? Did she really know who her father was ? Was she really against me digging up the ...
... father taught her how to sew . She could design anything . ' Our conversation continued for another half an hour or so . I kept thinking , had Mum lied ? Did she really know who her father was ? Was she really against me digging up the ...
Page 317
... father and brothers and sisters . I pretended I lived in a big flash house like Ivanhoe and I went to St Hilda's School for Girls , like Judy and June . It was very important to me to have a father then . Whenever I asked Mum about my ...
... father and brothers and sisters . I pretended I lived in a big flash house like Ivanhoe and I went to St Hilda's School for Girls , like Judy and June . It was very important to me to have a father then . Whenever I asked Mum about my ...
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