Description
In Horace Street Green, award-winning historian and biographer Edward Duyker shifts his gaze to his own childhood and youth. Born in 1955, to a Dutch father and a Mauritian mother, he grew up the eldest of eight children in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern, now decidedly affluent, but once home to many struggling working-class families. The author recalls a time when the trauma of war was still raw, immigrants forged new lives in a strange land, and religious orders sought to control every aspect of life, yet wantonly concealed abuse by their own ranks. This is a book about the vulnerabilities, puzzles and formative influences of childhood. It is autobiographical writing fortified by the historian’s craft, a narrative that is frequently surprising, touching and humorous.
Paperback, 230pp, 2023
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