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Her mother's daughter, a memoir, Nadia Wheatley

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Her mother's daughter, a memoir, Nadia Wheatley

Language

eng

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Includes bibliographic references

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autobiography

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Her mother's daughter

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Nadia Wheatley

Sub title

a memoir

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

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