Her mother's daughter : a memoir

Resource Information

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Label

Her mother's daughter : a memoir

Title remainder

a memoir

Statement of responsibility

Nadia Wheatley (author)

Creator

• Wheatley, Nadia, 1949-

Author

• Wheatley, Nadia, 1949-

Subject

• Dysfunctional families -- Australia -- Biography
• Mothers and daughters -- Australia -- Biography
• Wheatley, Nadia, 1949-
• Australian
• Wheatley, Nadia, 1949- -- Family
• Wheatley, Nadia, 1949- -- Childhood and youth
• Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

Born in Australia in 1949, author Nadia Wheatley grew up with a sense of the mystery of her parents' marriage. Caught in the crossfire between an independent woman and a controlling man, the child became a player in the deadly game. Was she her mother's daughter, or her father's creature? After her mother's death, the ten-year-old began writing down the stories her mother had told her - of a Cinderella-like childhood, followed by an escape into a career as an army nurse in Palestine and Greece, and as an aid-worker in the refugee camps of post-war Germany. Some fifty years later, the finished memoir is not only a loving tribute but an investigation of the bewildering processes of memory itself

Cataloging source

ANL

Literary form

non fiction