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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... pulled up in front of our local library . I would walk to the stop with Jill , then , when she was talking to her friends , I would nick off and hide behind the library building . After the bus had pulled in , collected its passengers ...
... pulled up in front of our local library . I would walk to the stop with Jill , then , when she was talking to her friends , I would nick off and hide behind the library building . After the bus had pulled in , collected its passengers ...
Page 241
... pulled up at the house and said to the contractor , ' I'm after a boy who can ride . I hear you've got two boys , can they ride ? There's jobs going if they can . ' ' I can ride , ' I said . I prayed the horse wouldn't throw me as soon ...
... pulled up at the house and said to the contractor , ' I'm after a boy who can ride . I hear you've got two boys , can they ride ? There's jobs going if they can . ' ' I can ride , ' I said . I prayed the horse wouldn't throw me as soon ...
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... pulled a clean men's singlet over her head , then a fleecy nightgown and a bedjacket . While she pulled a South Fremantle football beanie down over her head , I covered her feet with two pairs of woollen socks . After that , she wound ...
... pulled a clean men's singlet over her head , then a fleecy nightgown and a bedjacket . While she pulled a South Fremantle football beanie down over her head , I covered her feet with two pairs of woollen socks . After that , she wound ...
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