Alice SpringsA legacy from her grandmother sends Phillipa Snip Freeman on a personal odyssey through the Australian Outback in search of her long-lost father, and answers to her unexplained questions about her troubled childhood. |
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Page 113
... smiles at him and says nothing , just rests it on her tongue , and they have a competition like they used to twenty ... smile , swift and silent and she's not sure why . Bud doesn't notice . Snip drags them away . They're dyed with dirt ...
... smiles at him and says nothing , just rests it on her tongue , and they have a competition like they used to twenty ... smile , swift and silent and she's not sure why . Bud doesn't notice . Snip drags them away . They're dyed with dirt ...
Page 229
... smiles . ' He was the bugger who al- ways sat down in front of me and asked me for the beer that made him cry . And then he'd say hang on , no , you're too beautiful to be inflicted with the sight of that , just make it a lemonade ...
... smiles . ' He was the bugger who al- ways sat down in front of me and asked me for the beer that made him cry . And then he'd say hang on , no , you're too beautiful to be inflicted with the sight of that , just make it a lemonade ...
Page 248
... smile he flashes to her Snip recognizes , absolutely , bits of her own face in his and is startled by it . Bud's smile fades . Something fragile and vulnerable and old washes through him . ' I didn't tell you sooner because I'm weak ...
... smile he flashes to her Snip recognizes , absolutely , bits of her own face in his and is startled by it . Bud's smile fades . Something fragile and vulnerable and old washes through him . ' I didn't tell you sooner because I'm weak ...
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Aboriginal Alice Springs arms asks belly bitumen bloody body Bud says Bud's bugger bush cheek chest comes Dave and Snip Dave's deep desert dirt door drive drops dunes dust eyes face fierce fingers flicks Food fucking goanna grin hair hand head Helen Helicopter holds hurt kids land mate Merv mother mouth Napaljarri never night NIKKI GEMMEL No-one paint pulls pushes Queenie rifle road rubs sand scrabbles scrubbed Shelly-Anne shit shut side silence sits skin sleep slips smell smiles snaps Snip doesn't Snip feels Snip knows Snip looks Snip says Snip wakes Snip walks Snip's Snippy soft softly stares stomach stop swag swiftly Sydney talk Tanami Desert Tasmania tells Snip There's thing tight told town turns Vegemite voice Walpiri wants watch wedge-tailed eagle whisper whitefellas wind Wollongong woman Yapa Yeah