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Index
Cover
Note from the publisher
Praise for The Cherry Picker’s Daughter
About the author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Author’s Note
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contents
Part One
1. A town called Condo
2. One big Mob
3. My Island home
4. When the river floods
5. Bunyips, spirits and animals
6. Kids will be kids, and jumping fences
7. This old house
8. The silo and the Welfare Man
9. Going home to the Island
10. ‘Your mother’s dead’
11. Living at the cemetery
Part Two
12. Back on the Island
13. Daddy’s home
14. Happy Christmas
15. 1964: my Island home all gone
16. Too many tents, too much heartache
17. What’s a State Ward?
18. Cherry-picking time
19. All the way to Grafton Jail
20. Behind the bars
21. Earning a quid
22. The school’s racist
23. Decimal currency in Sydney
24. Back to the paddocks
25. Blue, the ‘hero’ dog
26. Christmas under the cherry tree
27. Leeton Show and the Mormons
28. Morisset Mental Hospital
29. We got grandparents
30. Koora: the little town on the railway track
31. Pay day and trains, and getting shot at
32. Anzac Day and Martin Luther King
33. Mother’s Day and White Trash
34. A letter from the Queen
35. Hearing the stories of my mother
36. Nearly fifteen
37. A fight and a visitor
38. The cherry pickers and the Tent Embassy
39. My mother’s grave and the Gilbert name
40. A daughter’s love
41. Motorbikes and life
42. Writing in Ghent, New York
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