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AUTHOR: Renee McBryde | PB | $32.99 | 304 Pages | 153 x 234 mm
In 2017 Renee McBryde published her best-selling memoir in which
she learned she was daughter of a convicted murderer, a secret she
was made to keep by her mother, shrouding her childhood and early
adulthood.
In Unravelling Us, Renee delves into the most important relaonship in
her life, her mother, who gave birth to Renee when she was barely
sixteen and living on the streets. Renee hopes that by doing this she
can heal the pain of her own turbulent childhood. But the pent-up
misery seeps its way into Renee’s life as her mum escapes into alcohol
and the party life, unwingly exposing Renee to a repeat of her own
early life of neglect and abandonment.
As a grown woman and child protecon worker in Alice Springs, Renee
is confronted with dierent mothering styles on a daily basis, which
only serves to strengthen her resolve to break the cycle of
abandonment and neglect that she herself suered. Renee ponders
the queson: is it her father's murders that she needs to run from? Or
is it the parenng trauma that has been drowning her family
generaon aer generaon? And now that she is a mother herself, is it
possible to stop that cycle aecng her own children?
Trying to reconcile her determinaon to forge her own path as a mother while being surrounded by echoes of her troubled past
and obligaons as a daughter to an increasingly fragile mother is almost impossible. And then the unthinkable happens...
Unravelling Us is a rare account that combines a gripping, page-turning story with an examinaon of what it means to be a
'good' mother against the backdrop of the one of the deepest and most chronic issues that aects Australia today, Indigenous
child welfare.
Unravelling Us
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