Her mother's daughter : a memoir / Nadia Wheatley.
Publisher: Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing Company, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 324 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cmContent type:- still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781925603491
- Wheatley, Neen, 1906-1958
- Wheatley, Nadia
- Wheatley, Nadia, 1949- -- Family
- Wheatley, Nadia, 1949- -- Childhood and youth
- Wheatley, Neen, 1906-1958
- Wheatley, Nadia -- Family
- Wheatley, Nadia -- Childhood and youth
- Autobiographies
- Dysfunctional families -- Australia -- Biography
- Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography
- Mothers and daughters -- Australia -- Biography
- Authors, Australian
- Dysfunctional families
- Families
- Mothers and daughters
- Childhood and youth of a person
- Australia
- Australian
- 920.72 23
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 920.72 WHE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 90664 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-322)
Born in Australia in 1949, author Nadia Wheatley grew up with a sense of the mystery of her parents' marriage. Caught in the crossfire between an independent woman and a controlling man, the child became a player in the deadly game. Was she her mother's daughter, or her father's creature? After her mother's death, the ten-year-old began writing down the stories her mother had told her - of a Cinderella-like childhood, followed by an escape into a career as an army nurse in Palestine and Greece, and as an aid-worker in the refugee camps of post-war Germany. Some fifty years later, the finished memoir is not only a loving tribute but an investigation of the bewildering processes of memory itself.
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