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An edited extract from Niall's Can You Hear the Sea?
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Can You Hear the Sea? My Grandmother's Story
Melbourne
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Text Publishing
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2017
12171654
2017
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biography
'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. ' (Publication Summary)
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