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Secrets From The Dust

by George Hamilton (Goodreads Author)

4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 · rating details · 48 ratings · 24 reviews

Snatched from her family during the 1960s, Margaret, a headstrong Aboriginal girl, is fostered by the McDonalds, in the Australian outback, under the government sponsored assimilation policies. She stubbornly fights to maintain her culture until she can escape or her real parents find her. But soon she discovers that she is growing to like many of the customs and material...more

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Published October 2010 by Browsing Rhino

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Apr 28, 2012 Rachelle Ayala rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book made me profoundly sad, dealing with an atrocious period in Australian history where native children were stolen from their parents to be forcibly assimilated. The first and last time we see the high spirited Snake-woman-child in her natural self ended with her kidnapping in the first scene.

They named her Margaret, erased her past and tried to transplant her into a world that did not accept her. They stripped her identity, maligned her parents, and replaced her affections to their ways...more

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Aug 08, 2011 G. Penn rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Secrets from the Dust more than lived up to my expectations. After reading Shelleyrae's review I was intrigued. I know little about Australia and found the subject of the Aboriginal children fascinating. The plight of many of the children was similar to the plight of the children of the slaves in the United States. Torn from their families, they were considered inferior and forced into servitude. Forced to learn to assimilate into the white society, they were never accepted by the white society....more

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May 03, 2012 Nancy Lewis rated it 3 of 5 stars

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This is what I imagine a sequel to Rabbit Proof Fence would be like - what happened after reform school - with a little dose of The Help (racial tension in the 1960s) & some Good Earth (farming life & the struggle against mother nature) thrown in.

There are so many things that happen in this story that make me go 'huh?' The characters do things or say things that seem incongruous or implausible. & the author uses some of the most obscure similes throughout.

Still, the story shows 196...more

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Jan 07, 2013 Mario Gomez rated it 5 of 5 stars

Overview: I am held captive and intrigued by the very first coherent thoughts to emanate off the first page. If someone had suggested this book to me as a quaint novel about an Aboriginal girl taken from her family, raised as an orphan into a foreign and oppressive culture with a plot set just prior to and through the Vietnam War, in Australia, I would have turned it down as “not for me.” A loss I would’ve had to live with. Because few stories of late have managed to simultaneously take a hold o...more Overview: I am held captive and intrigued by the very first coherent thoughts to emanate off the first page. If someone had suggested this book to me as a quaint novel about an Aboriginal girl taken from her family, raised as an orphan into a foreign and oppressive culture with a plot set just prior to and through the Vietnam War, in Australia, I would have turned it down as “not for me.” A loss I would’ve had to live with. Because few stories of late have managed to simultaneously take a hold of my intellect, my sentiments, and my conscience all at the same time. George Hamilton doesn’t relate a story to a casual observer, he instigates a participant; I am Snake-woman-child as she meets the yoke of the white man’s world.
The story is sprinkled with shards of wisdom. The hook that kept me reading. I sympathized with the young female protagonist, yes, but witnessing her perseverance somehow elevated my own spirit and character. Altogether helping me to empathize with struggles and fears that would otherwise have been foreign to me—as a man; and as a minority.
Secrets From the Dust is a story of tragedy, culminating lies, blossoming love, and defeat on the crisp of ultimate triumph. We witness the birth and death of dreams.
Summary: ” [L]ittle mulatto bitch!” is an unexpected protagonist in a tale built beneath the all too familiar backdrop of imperialism—conquer, dominate, assimilate. Except, here, there are no romantic overtones to the eradication, by European settlers, of the lives and beliefs of the Aboriginal people. There is nothing grandiose or noble about human abduction or kidnapping for profit; nor is there beauty to be found in societal intolerance. And yet, there is, heroism in the last place one would expect to find it: a child’s resilience and innocence.
The Radley Domestic Training Home for girls is the intake center for Aboriginal children soon to be cheap labor. I walked through these cold doors of human indifference unprepared for what awaited me in the form of “European values and work habits,” dished out like slop from a prison mess hall. Experiencing this through the eyes of a young girl was much like awakening from a familiar, pleasant dream into a nightmare.
Blinding hope appears throughout, only to then slip through Margaret’s fingers time and again. Her family is so close, and yet, so far. I grieved for her family; I hoped for her; but above all I was enraged by the legitimacy of it all: Racism doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface of the errant social conditioning effectuated beneath the guise of Christian morals.
Child rape is alluded to. My blood boils, my emotions tip from one extreme to another, as shame overcomes me for having been raised to believe in the ostentatious superiority of the European ethos of capitalism, Christianity, and the cold chisel of progress.
It’s not long before the panorama of Margaret’s existence at the Radley home is upset. The hope of rescue begins to slip, as her adventure now takes flight. She grows from childhood into adolescence, with all the typical dilemmas of change and human development into what one hopes will be a stable identity. Boys. Betrayal. Having a different color of skin. Being on the losing side of the xenophobic, racist paradigm. It’s all here.
Old torments subside, old memories fall into obscurity, and all while solidarity in her life is on the rise. Margaret struggles with her identity, but rather than lament the inevitable she maintains her spirit, allowing hope to assume an unfamiliar role in friendship.
And while her life goes on so does the search for her whereabouts. Her family’s quest for a lost child hints for some reason of “The Grapes of Wraith”—human perseverance on the brink of defeat; or perhaps because I see the ruddy, wasted faces of capitalism on the countenance of every beggar that Margaret confronts.
Just when I’m about to label the story predictable, Hamilton expertly redirects the tale from the homestead on Malee to the hustle and bustle of Sydney. And perhaps this is where the birth and death of dreams really takes place.
For the first time I felt disappointed by Margaret’s obstinate behavior. Would she embrace her new life or her past life? A perspective shift that solidified her as a character full of faults and insecurities—i.e., authentically human. How many changes? How many rebirths? Not only for Snake-woman-child, but for all of us.
Character Evaluation: Margaret (Snake-woman-child) is an atypical protagonist who confronts fears, overcomes adversities, and struggles with vice and the impending uncertainty of change. Truly admirable: a poster-child for resilience.
Resilience is a reoccurring, centralized theme throughout the story’s evolution. From rich to poor, Aboriginal to white, if there is one consistency it’s that the insecurities of humanity touches all lives.
Hamilton allows every character to manifest a different, after conflicting facet of the compendium of life. The protagonist role, for instance, manifests itself in several varieties of friendships that ebb in and out of Margaret’s life. The antagonist role, likewise, is seen in the teachers, the nuns, the politics, and in the societal arrogance and cruelty at large.
Hamilton superbly offers up a cornucopia of personalities to feast our senses upon.
High Points: The depicting prose of Hamilton is sensational. As a writer I was distracted by envy.
“Women beating fans against the air like hummingbirds on the wing, fidgeting boys in white shirts and bow ties, competing girls in pastel nylon frocks, and four or five stalwart men….”—prose that paints church on the canvas of my mind in the way that crunching snow beneath my feet makes me think of Christmas and carols.
As mentioned, I perceived “The Grapes of Wraith:” A family drifting from their ancestral lands in search of hope, redemption, working here and there. The perfect manifestation of hunger, restlessness, and wavering hope—the human condition in totality. The mother saying, “They stole our land, our culture and our children, husband. They don’t believe their own words, so why should we?”
Hamilton exceeded all expectations by twisting my emotions. I actually felt the lonely, desperate search for a lost child. I believed in Anne’s sincerity, that she really was offering a better way of life. I hated the blatant hypocrisy of the nuns at the school. And outright loved Margaret’s innocence.
The question to be answered: Where does happiness reside? And unlike so many writers, he doesn’t answer it for us.
Low Points: The protagonist’s afflictions with vice felt cliché. However, as one of my students who also read the book pointed out, it is the contrast from one’s virtues to faults that substantiates character in humanity.
Also, the consistent religious overtones were tiresome. Hamilton’s seems reluctant to openly criticize what was is so blatantly a ruse.
Did I like this story? Absolutely. I related with the struggles of being a minority of mixed ethnicity. Would I read it again? I will revisit it in parts so as to take away some of those shards of wisdom. Who would I recommend it to? To almost anyone: Students; literary fictions fans; and anyone who enjoys witnessing human perseverance. Note: not for romance aficionados. My rating? Five out five stars as a novel; and four out of five for being a well-crafted piece of literature.(less)

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Dec 05, 2012 Max Tomlinson rated it 4 of 5 stars

Powerful family saga of the Australian outback during the turbulent ‘60s

Secrets From The Dust takes place during the time when Australia, like many first world countries, was going through the social upheaval of equal rights. In Australia’s case, those rights pertained to the Aborigines, who were treated as little more than non-persons at the start of the decade.

The story revolves around Margaret, a young Aborigine girl snatched from her parents as part of the country’s assimilation program, and...more

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May 13, 2012 Karen S. rated it 4 of 5 stars

Did you ever see the movie, Rabbit Proof Fence? This book is also set in 1960's Australia with a similar focus on the draconian laws that separate Aboriginal parents from their children, should those children have any Caucasian ancestry. In Secrets from the Dust, the main character, Margaret, is stolen from her loving family and forced to live with a white, foster family who do her a "favor",by raising her to live in white culture, relinquishing all vestiges of her own culture. Margaret's disloc...more

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Apr 28, 2012 Nancy rated it 5 of 5 stars

SECRETS FROM THE DUST, by George Hamilton, took me by surprise. It’s the story of a young Aboriginal girl, known to her tribe as Snake-woman-girl, who’s brutally snatched from her family and taken to a government-sponsored school for domestic training. With her new name, Margaret, and her new training as a servant, she’s fostered by Anne McDonald, wife to a pineapple farmer in the outback.

Even though life is relatively easy — Margaret has her own room and is allowed to attend school — she does...more

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Jun 05, 2011 Murphy's Library rated it 4 of 5 stars

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This story is set in Australia, but could be any country that has a large amount of Aboriginal people. For decades the Australian government has forced those children into white culture, in what they called a try out for rehabilitation, a way to make children grow out the Aboriginals. The Stolen Generation is what it was called. But they’ve forgotten one thing: nobody can change the blood that runs in our veins.

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Apr 20, 2012 Rachel Cotterill rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Secrets From The Dust is a sweeping and thought-provoking work of historical fiction, telling the story of the early colonization of Australia and the mis-treatment of the aboriginal community.

The central character Margaret is a determined and sometimes rebellious girl, constantly fighting back against the injustices she experiences as a result of her background. On the scale of the aboriginal women in the book, Margaret is one of the lucky ones (she isn't raped, for starters), but her relative...more

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Jun 19, 2012 Siobhan Pratt rated it 4 of 5 stars

I like a story that can transport me to another place and time in a way that leaves me feeling I know and understand that place. ‘Secrets From the Dust’ has done just that. The author has managed to weave into his story the social and political climate of the 50s and 60s of Australia. I now have a greater understanding of the mindset of both the native Aboriginals and the immigrants who tried to make Australia home, in both the Outback and the cities.
Parallels are drawn between the two perspecti...more I like a story that can transport me to another place and time in a way that leaves me feeling I know and understand that place. ‘Secrets From the Dust’ has done just that. The author has managed to weave into his story the social and political climate of the 50s and 60s of Australia. I now have a greater understanding of the mindset of both the native Aboriginals and the immigrants who tried to make Australia home, in both the Outback and the cities.
Parallels are drawn between the two perspectives and then merge in a single character. Margaret is stolen as a young child from her family and re-homed with a white family.
She struggles continuously through what remains of her childhood, her teens and into young womanhood with the desire to find her kin and remember their ways, and her increasing acceptance of European beliefs and aspirations. Sadly, of course, this leaves her constantly confused as to who she is, where she fits in, what she believes in, and who she wants to be.

The book is well researched and successfully colours the Outback as harsh and unforgiving to the newcomers who try to control it, and bountiful and nourishing to those who have lived on and understood the land for centuries.
The story is well structured and flows fluidly between scenes. The formatting is also good.
The portrayal of Margaret and those around her’s evolving emotions and outlooks is thorough and the characters are well developed and presented.

However, as a reader, whilst I was sympathetic to Margaret, and even Anne, her foster mother, and their lives, torments, hopes, disappointments and decisions, I felt I was viewing them as a distant observer. It may be that I did not feel drawn into their lives because of the shortage of engaging dialogue.
Yet that too could be because of the isolation each character felt in their environment and the enormous expanse of the Outback. It certainly lent to a perception of minimal contact between characters.

This book is worth reading for the fascinating insight into Aboriginal culture and customs, and the effect of white supremacy, arrogance and ignorance on their people.

I was first drawn to reading this book by the title and cover.

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Jun 17, 2011 Karyn rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: shellebee

this one hits on the heart of the dreaming and the repercussions of stealing the indigenous from their "country" .. sadly just one story of way too many

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Apr 25, 2011 Larelle rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A fabulous read. Wonderfully written and well researched. I found the character of Maraget an absorbing one.

Being an Australian of Aboriginal anscestry (my great grandmother was a full blood aborigine whom married my English-born great grandfather), I found it such a thought provoking read. I'm sure my grandmother (being half-caste and always trying to hide her Aboriginality to "fit in" in the "white world") must have gone through many of the things Margaret did. It must be so hard to be mixed...more

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Jun 13, 2011 Megan rated it 4 of 5 stars

I finished this book in nearly a day. It's a quick read as the main character, Margaret, easily draws you in. As a foreigner currently living in Australia, I loved how the author painted the vastly different experiences of Aboriginal history between rural and urban Australian life in the 50s, 60s and 70s. Though the focal point of the book, is Margaret's experiences of colonisation and internal search to understand who she is and where she belongs, when no one is willing to accept her as she is....more

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Jun 19, 2011 Lolliepop rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Ok, I have to be honest. I have never read something like this before as far as I am concern and guess what, I like this book. Really! But, I dont think I want to read any other book regarding the same matter anymore. What the author have told me in this book is enough for me to imagine it to the real life. On how miserable living at the Training Home, how to adjust oneself to live with a new society and how different they were from you really disturb you however you try not to feel different....more

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Oct 25, 2011 Ctb rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Wonderful. I received this book free from Goodreads First Reads. Thank you.

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May 14, 2013 Debdatta Dasgupta Sahay rated it 4 of 5 stars

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When a friend referred this novel to me, I promptly added it to my TBR list and the author was kind enough to send me a free copy for review purpose. Since this particular friend of mine doesn’t recommend books lightly, I picked up this novel with the expectation of a couple of hours of enjoyable read at the least. But I got much more than just a couple of hours of well invested time. This novel left me speechless… and let me tell you, that doesn’t happen very often.

The story revolves around Mar...more When a friend referred this novel to me, I promptly added it to my TBR list and the author was kind enough to send me a free copy for review purpose. Since this particular friend of mine doesn’t recommend books lightly, I picked up this novel with the expectation of a couple of hours of enjoyable read at the least. But I got much more than just a couple of hours of well invested time. This novel left me speechless… and let me tell you, that doesn’t happen very often.

The story revolves around Margaret, an Aboriginal girl with the plot being set in the 1960’s. At a very young age, Margaret was ‘taken’ from her home and family and first placed in a government school, then with a foster family. With her own identity, family and culture stripped away from her, Margaret is taught to be like a Southern European. But she isn’t an ordinary girl who can be subdued and dominated easily. She is stubborn and strong-willed. Over the years she struggles with her true identity and confusion, yet she refuses to give in to the society… This is essentially Margaret’s story.

I LOVED Margaret. I smiled and cried with her, I cheered her on, shared her dreams, sympathized with her and continuously wished her success. It was helluva ride to take, but living through all the ups and downs of Margaret’s life was totally worth it. She has had a hard life yet her spirit was never broken, not even at the lowest point of her life. Anne, Sean and Liz have quite a presence in the novel and their lives are so deeply connected.

The plot is so amazingly deep yet handled in an expert manner. Through Margaret, and the people around her, the author has covered a wide array of social issues of the time – from racial tension to child labour to rape and violence. Now that I think of it, things haven’t changed as much, has it? Author’s amazing style of writing and his language only compliments the plot. I do not know much about Australian landscape and culture, yet the author, through his writing, managed to paint a vivid picture of the Australia of 1960s in my mind.

An amazing heart touching and thought provoking piece of work!
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Oct 03, 2012 Marilou George rated it 5 of 5 stars

This story fully engages you in the social and political climate of the 50s and 60s in Australia. Snake-woman-girl is a young Aboriginal girl who is stolen from her family and forced to live in a government-sponsored school until she is fostered out to a white Australian family. While at the school she is given the name Margaret and when her parents show up and demand for her to be returned to them she is secretly taken to a foster family, the McDonald’s, to live and work on a pineapple farm in...more This story fully engages you in the social and political climate of the 50s and 60s in Australia. Snake-woman-girl is a young Aboriginal girl who is stolen from her family and forced to live in a government-sponsored school until she is fostered out to a white Australian family. While at the school she is given the name Margaret and when her parents show up and demand for her to be returned to them she is secretly taken to a foster family, the McDonald’s, to live and work on a pineapple farm in the outback.

Margaret embarks on a life that is foreign to her and is thrust into situations that are cruel and demeaning because she is different. She desperately misses her family and waits for them to find her while at the same time learns to accept the behaviors of the people she interacts with and sets out to change their attitudes and find her place in their culture.

The characters in this book are developed with such depth of emotion and realism that you actually feel engaged in their dialogue and the challenges they face as you forge a connection with them. Margaret is the main character; we meet her as a child and follow her to adulthood. She struggles continuously through her childhood holding out hope that her parents will find her and take her home. She also struggles to continue practicing the ways of her people as she ultimately begins to accept the beliefs of the people and influences around her. She struggles to find her own place and sense of self only to become more confused and yearning for a life of her own.

The author's stunning depictions of Margaret's surroundings enable you to visualize the natural beauty of the Australian landscape as well as the harshness of the environment and its impact on the people that live there. This is a story that will arouse your senses and enable you to feel the emotional upheaval of the time and become fully engaged in the story.

All the characters in this book are woven together to tell their story from their own point of view which brings a true sense of intimacy. We are able to view their lives from their perspective and witness the struggles and sense of well-being they all face. Margaret’s foster parents Anne and Sean MacDonald and their daughter Liz are characters that have a stunning impact on Margaret and their impact in the story is powerful.

It is abundantly apparent that George Hamilton put a tremendous amount of research into the writing of this book. The government in the 50’s and 60’s was determined to eliminate the culture of the aboriginal people and the racism and hatred is palpable.

This is an extremely well written, intelligent and inspiring book that I absolutely recommend to all readers. This book is an experience that should not be ignored!
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Mar 10, 2011 Shelleyrae at Book'd Out rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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From the late 1880's to the mid 1960's, Australian authorities (government, church and welfare) removed Aboriginal children from their parents care forcing them into homes to be assimilated into white culture (usually as servants). This abhorrent policy has resulted in what is called "The Stolen Generation".
'Margaret', is stolen from her Mob as a young child and is placed in Radley, a care home for aboriginal girls where they are forced to deny their family, culture and language while being taug...more From the late 1880's to the mid 1960's, Australian authorities (government, church and welfare) removed Aboriginal children from their parents care forcing them into homes to be assimilated into white culture (usually as servants). This abhorrent policy has resulted in what is called "The Stolen Generation".
'Margaret', is stolen from her Mob as a young child and is placed in Radley, a care home for aboriginal girls where they are forced to deny their family, culture and language while being taught the basic tenants of servitude. The home is cruel, Maragaret is half starved and absued but the law refuses to return her to her family.Eventually she is 'adopted' by the McDonalds family and joins them on their farm.
Margaret is luckier than many of the stolen generation in that her family believes she should be treated with charity, educated and cared for to fit in within white society. Margaret's attepmts to hold onto her own culture, and the hope her parents will come for her, wither under the natural desire of a child to fit in with her new family and community.
Hamilton does an excellent job of portraying Margaret's gradual alienation from her own culture. He captures the subtle shifts in her thinking and her longing to belong. Margaret is an appealing and sympathetic character, she shows determination and spirit despite difficult circumstances.
Margarets situation is subtly contrasted by her 'sister', the other white children at the school and the 'adopted' aboriginal children she meets. Margarets adoptive mother and to a lesser extent her adoptive father and sister are well developed as are the important minor characters.
My heart breaks knowing that while Margaret is fictionalised, her circumstances are a representation of the racism and bigotry aboriginals experienced under the guise of 'help'. It is even harder to know that most were treated far worse, as her friends situations illustrate. The impact of the Stolen Generation is huge with the repercussions still echoing through Australian society.
Secrets From the Dust is well written, the descriptions of both place and emotion are lyrical and honest. Hamilton does well to capture details and attitudes of the time with the story spanning a period of about 10+ years during the 1950's - 1960's. He manages to avoid a sensational or preachy tone that is common in such a politically 'hot' story. Most impressively, given the author's gender (male) and heritage (he resides in England) is his ability to explore the issues from an aboriginal teenaged girl perspective with an authentic voice.
Harrowing, beautiful and thought provoking, Secrets From the Dust is is an impressive novel from George Hamilton. With it's shocking conclusion it deserves an audience, particularly from Australian's who want to understand the impact Australia's social policies have had on the indigeneous population.

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Sep 08, 2012 Steven Greenberg rated it 3 of 5 stars

Wow. What an outstanding book, superbly researched, very written, and plotted with nuance and forethought. I learned a lot about the incredible abuses of Aboriginal rights, and came to identify closely with the characters the author created.

However, I can only give the book three stars because the author did not have the book edited, and it is RIFE with typos and errors, which seriously detracts from the the reading experience.

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Apr 17, 2012 Lynne (Tigger's Mum) rated it 5 of 5 stars

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I didn't read the synopsis and just started reading after a Goodreads recommendation. I'm so glad I did. The story was fascinating, the characters and their environment were so well described you could see them. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

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Apr 28, 2012 Luisa rated it 3 of 5 stars

I was born in Australia and I lived there until I was nine, when my family moved to Italy. I have always been interested in Aboriginal history, being an extremely important part of Australia's history.
This is the first fictional book I've ever read about Aborigines and I thought it was really interesting from that point of view, reading history through a fictional novel.
A part from that, I found the book too long and not very clear with times and ages: I was never sure how old Margaret was at a...more

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Jul 19, 2012 Anthea rated it 4 of 5 stars

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I must admit I struggled a bit with how many stars to give this - my gut reaction was closer to 3 or 3 1/2 stars. I LOVED the first 3/4 of the book but the last quarter was so disjointed and seemed so rushed that I plodded through to the ending, almost not finishing it. In addition there were many distracting grammatical errors...
BUT there was some beautifully descriptive language and most of it was a really good story. I was fascinated (and educated) by the portrayal of Australian aboriginal...more

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Apr 23, 2012 Leeann rated it 4 of 5 stars

Not knowing anything about Australia's "Stolen Generation" I found this book quite an eye-opener.

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A fascinating story, beautifully written

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George Hamilton studied at the University of East London, majoring in development economics. He likes to know what’s going on around the world, to delve into the customs and practices of different cultures. His first novel, Secrets From The Dust, is enriched with aspects of the Australian Koori (Aboriginal) culture, and in Carnival of Hope, he turns his sights on the Nordestinos of North-Eastern B...more

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