Frances Coughlan Frances Coughlan i(13181128 works by)
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1 y separately published work icon Gathering Sticks : Lighting up Small Fires Margaret Heffernan , Gerard Waterford , Frances Coughlan , Alice Springs : IAD Press , 2018 13181148 2018 single work autobiography

'Margaret Heffernan's desire, in telling this story, has been to pass on to her children and future generations of her family, the story of her life, a life in transition from traditional culture to a very different world that is still unfolding.' (Publication summary)

1 1 y separately published work icon Living in Hope Frank Byrne , Frances Coughlan , Gerard Waterford , Alice Springs : Running Water Community Press , 2017 14216416 2017 single work autobiography

'The killing times were barely over in the Kimberley.
What I knew, even as a small boy, was that no-one argued with a whitefella. People talked in whispers.
I was still so small.
This is the story of the early years of my life. The story of a boy who was taken away from his mother and his family forever when he was just six years old. He had no say in it. His family had no say in it. The government had all the say in everything.

'A memoir of boyhood by a man who was removed as a child – from country, from culture and language, from family, from his mother.

'Filled with surprises and unlikely fun, this is more than just a story of surviving. From hiding out from the Japanese in spring-fed caves in the deep Kimberley, to being let loose in a paddock just like a poddy calf at Moola Bulla, to cowboy comics at the Beagle Bay mission.

'A story of white bosses, of priest bosses, of black stockmen and of staying out of trouble.

'With honesty and unexpected graciousness, Frank reminds us of a not-so-distant past and of how things happened for Aboriginal people in the North West.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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