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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... She'd get tired of one job , so I'd say , " Come on , let's chuck the housework " , and we'd go shopping . ' ' Did Nan ever see her mother again ? ' ' Yes . I sent her back for a holiday with Howden . I said , " Take her back for a ...
... She'd get tired of one job , so I'd say , " Come on , let's chuck the housework " , and we'd go shopping . ' ' Did Nan ever see her mother again ? ' ' Yes . I sent her back for a holiday with Howden . I said , " Take her back for a ...
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... she'd laugh her head off . All the descendants of that mob are interlocked now , they're all related around here , I ... she'd heave them off and heave them back on again . If she got into trouble , she'd come and see one of our family ...
... she'd laugh her head off . All the descendants of that mob are interlocked now , they're all related around here , I ... she'd heave them off and heave them back on again . If she got into trouble , she'd come and see one of our family ...
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... she'd given me . The cheek of it . Bunda belonged to me , she'd given it me before she died and they come and asked for it back . " That brooch doesn't belong to you now , Daisy , ' they said , ' it's ours now , you got to hand it over ...
... she'd given me . The cheek of it . Bunda belonged to me , she'd given it me before she died and they come and asked for it back . " That brooch doesn't belong to you now , Daisy , ' they said , ' it's ours now , you got to hand it over ...
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