Can you hear the sea? : my grandmother's story / Brenda Niall.
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SoundPublisher number: 4019CD | Queensland Narrating ServicePublisher: [Coorparoo, Qld.] : Queensland Narrating Service, [2018]Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 7 CDs : digital ; 12 cmContent type: spoken word Media type: audio Carrier type: audio discSubject(s): Gorman, Agnes Jane, 1869-1953 | Grandmothers -- Australia -- Biography | Women immigrants -- Australia -- Biography | Single women -- Australia -- Biography | Farm life -- Australia -- BiographyGenre/Form: Biographies. | Audiobooks. DDC classification: 305.40994 Narrated by Kaye Stevenson.Summary: 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.
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Queensland Narrating Service: 4019CD.
Print edition published: Text Publishing, 2017.
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.
Narrated by Kaye Stevenson.
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