'The Balderstones’ house is just steps from a humble waterway where up to 150 Gunaikurnai people were mowed down, turning the water ‘red with blood’'
'Rather than engendering guilt, the focus should be on healing historical wounds threatening the nation’s future.'
'Witnesses vanished, killers went free and there is reluctance – even today – to acknowledge that the slaughter of Aboriginal people took place.'
'Nicola Redhouse’s memoir traverses neuroscience and psychoanalysis in a quest to understand her own mind.'
'My Sudanese grandmother couldn’t fathom why I read books full of dragons and danger but in them I saw the person I could be.' (Introduction)
