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Can You Hear the Sea?: My Grandmother’s Story

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.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 304
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781925498790
  • Genres
  • biography
  • Release date
  • 2017