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 123
... swag and on her pillow is a novel , Perfume , she can't con- centrate on , and in the dirt beside it is a sketchpad she can't draw on . It's time soon for a new Sydney show and she needs to be doing some work for it . She can't . Her ...
... swag and on her pillow is a novel , Perfume , she can't con- centrate on , and in the dirt beside it is a sketchpad she can't draw on . It's time soon for a new Sydney show and she needs to be doing some work for it . She can't . Her ...
Page 174
... swag and on the way murmurs across to Bud you old bas- tard , hoping to unlock him in sleep . There's a suck of a snore in response . The sheet in the swag twists between her legs . She holds the material tight at her chest and keens ...
... swag and on the way murmurs across to Bud you old bas- tard , hoping to unlock him in sleep . There's a suck of a snore in response . The sheet in the swag twists between her legs . She holds the material tight at her chest and keens ...
Page 196
... swag , with pillows and cushions tumbled on it , is in the middle of the roof . Snip is lifted and carried to it , laughing and hitting at Dave . ' I bribed a nurse to get you up here . She said you needed some pampering , it'd do you ...
... swag , with pillows and cushions tumbled on it , is in the middle of the roof . Snip is lifted and carried to it , laughing and hitting at Dave . ' I bribed a nurse to get you up here . She said you needed some pampering , it'd do you ...
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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