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<br> A story of homecoming, this absorbing novel opens with a young, city-based lawyer setting out on her first visit to ancestral country. Candice arrives at "the place where the rivers meet", the camp of the Eualeyai where in 1918 her grandmother Garibooli was abducted. As Garibooli takes up the story of Candice's Aboriginal family, the twentieth century falls away.Garibooli, renamed Elizabeth, is sent to work as a housemaid, but marriage soon offers escape from the terror of the master's night-time visits. Her displacement carries into the lives of her seven children - their stories witness to the impact of orphanage life and the consequences of having a dark skin in post-war Australia. Vividly rekindled, the lives of her family point the direction home for Candice.Home is a powerful and intelligent first novel from an author who understands both the capacity of language to suppress and the restorative potency of stories that bridge past and present.

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Author

Hodgson, Elizabeth

Publisher

University of Queensland Press ; Distributed in the USA and Canada by International Specialized Book Services

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780702242564

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Poetry, Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.32 / 5 (243 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13