Patricia’s Reviews > Can You Hear the Sea?: My Grandmother’s Story > Status Update

Ok. Still lots of she thought and she felt etc.

This is a lesson on how difficult it is to write well about family history. The central character is the writer's grandmother whom she knew although it must have been as a young child. There is some interest in the trajectory of her life from Liverpool to the NSW Riverina. She is given a credible personality but there are still a lot of suppositions. This from a skilled and experienced biographer.

Enjoyable book about Brenda Niall's grandmother who came to Australia in 1888 when she was 18.