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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... felt really scared , I'd look over the verandah to the tall gum tree nearby , and I'd see him there , watching me . I felt very protected . Sometimes , when I was sad , a light would shine suddenly inside of me and make me happy . I ...
... felt really scared , I'd look over the verandah to the tall gum tree nearby , and I'd see him there , watching me . I felt very protected . Sometimes , when I was sad , a light would shine suddenly inside of me and make me happy . I ...
Page 376
... felt sick . I knew deep down he'd never take his own life , but it still worried me . I'd had it drummed into me at Parkerville that such people went straight to hell . I didn't want him to go to hell , I started to cry , I felt so ...
... felt sick . I knew deep down he'd never take his own life , but it still worried me . I'd had it drummed into me at Parkerville that such people went straight to hell . I didn't want him to go to hell , I started to cry , I felt so ...
Page 377
... felt the whole department had been so mean to Bill . They'd done nothing for him while he was alive . Why did someone have to die before they recognised the seriousness of the problem ? Although I still grieved for Bill , I felt as ...
... felt the whole department had been so mean to Bill . They'd done nothing for him while he was alive . Why did someone have to die before they recognised the seriousness of the problem ? Although I still grieved for Bill , I felt as ...
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