Can You Hear The Sea. My Grandmother's Story

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
Publisher Place: Melbourne
Publisher Year: 2017
Edition: First Edition

Description: 276 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: An insightful and moving story of life in nineteenth and early twentieth century Australia, from one of the country's most celebrated biographers. Brenda Niall has turned her biographer's eye to a personal subject - her grandmother, Aggie. She tells the story of a fiercely independent and intelligent woman who braved a new country as a single woman, teaching in a country school, before marrying a Riverina grazier, whose large powerful family was wary of the newcomer with ideas of her own. Aggie dealt with hardships and loneliness after the early and drawn-out death of her husband, and brought up her seven children to be happy - all with a calm determination. But it was the memory box and her longing for the sea that captured the imagination of her granddaughter.

ISBN: 9781925498790