Barbara Hickey

Only 'little bumps' (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Discover the history of Queensland through the experiences of Billy, the realist and Gracie, the dreamer.

Billy is the outgoing, optimistic young person taking an interest in those around him, establishing a long association with a priest mentor, becoming a champion boxer, itinerant labourer, Don R (Motorcycle despatch rider), Prisoner of War, family man and mate.

Gracie who faced death at the time of her birth, who lives in a daydream world and is shy, reclusive and described as a 'dunce' shows she can rise to the occasion when stirred to defend those she sees as victims.

The 'Queenslander' identity is entrenched as the state faces the challenges thrown up in the times of economic depression, war and fear of invasion and revealed as Billy and Gracie develop the resilience confronting the enormous 'bumps' on their journey of self-discovery.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barbara Hickey
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780648861324
• Artikelnr.: 66023977

Autorenporträt

Barbara Hickey a first-time author was born in Brisbane Queensland Australia. Married with three children and three grandchildren she is the second of seven children born to a stay-at-home mother, a former seamstress, and a father who was manual worker, and had been a prisoner of war and motorcycle despatch rider.

She grew up in the post-World War Two era in a developing suburb where many houses were owner-built. Her world was one of freedom and adventure with Saturday morning matinees, radio serials, and play in the homes of neighbours or the bushland surrounding the area. Church was part of life with the monks from the monastery on the hill ringing the Angelus at 12 midday and 6pm daily signalling time to be home. Not a great deal of discussion of politics or history occurred in the home as children were to be seen but not heard.

She was an inquisitive child who spent many hours exploring objects of family history including a diary kept on a voyage to Australia by her great grandmother in 1874, postcards and various documents.

Barbara was grateful to an aunt who paid for her last two years of Secondary schooling. Educated by Good Samaritan nuns she developed a love of education and a compassionate regard for her fellow beings admiring the nuns knowing that their colleagues had worked in Nagasaki soon after the dropping of the atomic bomb and establishing a school in Sasebo. Her hero was her Great Aunt, a winner of a university medal and a teacher with her first posting being the Lighthouse School on Moreton Island in 1905.

Barbara taught children from the ages of five to seventeen in both Primary and Secondary schools throughout Queensland.

In recent years she visited Malacca, Mersing and Singapore seeking an understanding of her father's personality and explored family history with trips to Ireland, England and Switzerland. After the death of both parents, Barbara developed an interest in their lives and being a romantic elaborated on what she knew of their world.