Publisher's Synopsis
Magpie at My Door, The Beginning.Part One. A story about growing up and surviving years of change and social unrest during the years from 1946 to 1974. Referencing the social implications and significant events occurring during these years combined with the turbulent personal life of living in a convent in the bush in Western Australia from four years old years old. Farmed out to indifferent families until pre teen. Living in South Africa during Arpartheid. Experiencing years of domestic violence sanctioned at the time by society. Enduring six week long cramped shipboard journeys as a teenager alone from Australia to England. Being imprisoned in Czechoslovakia in 1969. Living in a kombi van while driving through Europe, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan Pakistan, India and Nepal en route to Australia. "From the age of four I have always had to adjust to leaving and being left by the people I love. Moving continuously from place to place the constant in my life remains the dawn song of the magpie whenever I return to Australia. This repetitive sound gives me a sense of place and belonging that I have rarely found otherwise."Magpie at My Door is a trilogy. A three part story covering three quarters of a century of a rich and varied life. Each part stands alone with many varied accounts referring to these times of extraordinary change and extreme social situations.Having Children and Getting Married (In that order) is PART TWO covering the years 1975 through 1994 and Growing Older is PART THREE, 1994 through to the present time.
