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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... loved our new dog and her affection was returned . Tiger , as she named him , soon answered only to her . Tiger used to yap viciously from our bedroom windowsill every morning at anything that moved . I complained to Mum one morning ...
... loved our new dog and her affection was returned . Tiger , as she named him , soon answered only to her . Tiger used to yap viciously from our bedroom windowsill every morning at anything that moved . I complained to Mum one morning ...
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... loved to listen to that noise . I went on the trains , too . In those days , you could go form Merredin to Perth for seventeen shillings . From Kununoppin to Perth was the same . I loved riding on the trains . I felt like I was someone ...
... loved to listen to that noise . I went on the trains , too . In those days , you could go form Merredin to Perth for seventeen shillings . From Kununoppin to Perth was the same . I loved riding on the trains . I felt like I was someone ...
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... loved them . Often , the films were quite heart - rending tales about gypsies stealing a child from a family . Of course , by the end of the film , they'd all be reunited . I really identified with those films . We all did . I always ...
... loved them . Often , the films were quite heart - rending tales about gypsies stealing a child from a family . Of course , by the end of the film , they'd all be reunited . I really identified with those films . We all did . I always ...
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