Mary Rose Liverani grew up in the slums of Glasgow and, at the age of thirteen, migrated with her family to a steel town on the south coast of New South Wales. After a carefree time in a migrant hostel, she found that they had exchanged the warmth and richness of life amongst family and friends in Britain for the sometimes frighteningly silent hostility of the Australian suburbs.
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