Edinburgh to Maryborough

by Val Dwyer

In the 1890s Val's great grandparents migrated to Edinburgh Scotland from Donegal, Ireland with 11 children, 4 of whom were killed in action in WW1. Born in 1939, Val's recollections of her childhood on the streets of Edinburgh and the family's immigration to Australia at the age of 10 in 1949 are vivid and entertaining.
The 10 year bureaucracy of her application for an annulment of her first marriage from the Catholic Church is astounding. Val likens it to - "typing up a Monty-Python script".
Her account of the Maryborough bushfire on the 14th January 1985 retells of the hazards of living in the Australian Bush.

206 pages, Paperback

Published November 14, 2017

Reviews

[Jeanne Hart · Rating 5 out of 5]

We read this book written by Val Dwyer in which she relates her family history and found it to be a really good story. It’s representative of the thousands of emigrants’ experiences in Australia after WW2. The resilience and determination of her family through their various hardships is to be greatly admired, and the author has told her story in an interesting and engaging manner. A book that is ‘unputdownable’!