PublishedText Publishing, October 2017 |
ISBN9781925498790 |
FormatHardcover, 304 pages |
Dimensions21.6cm × 14.3cm × 3.2cm |
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.
