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Wild Chicory is the story of a journey from Ireland to Australia in the early 1900s, along threads of love, family, war and peace. It's a slice of ordinary life rich in history, folklore and fairy tale, and a portrait of the precious bond between a granddaughter, Brigid, and her grandmother, Nell. From the windswept, emerald coast of County Kerry, to the slums of Sydney's Surry Hills; and from the bitter sectarian violence of Ulster, to tranquillity of rural New South Wales, Brigid weaves her grandmother's tales into a small but beautiful epic of romance and tragedy, of laughter and the cold reality of loss. It's Nell's tales, tall and true, that spur Brigid to write her own, too. Ultimately, it's a story of finding your feet in a new land - be that a new country, or a new emotional space - and the wonderful trove of narrative we carry with us wherever we might go. No library descriptions found. |
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4.5 stars
A beautifully written story about family, love, and the importance of a person's origin and ancestry. This short book is set in Ireland and Australia telling the story of the Kennedy family: Brigid, Dan and their fourteen children; the only girl, Nell, and her own family ending with one of Nell's granddaughters, Brigid, telling the whole story while looking for a place to settle down with her husband and write all the stories her grandma told her. After finding a field full of chicory flowers she knows she's arrived at the right place. Wild Chicory is a wonderful tale told in just a hundred pages inspired by Kim Kelly's own relationship with her grandmother.
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