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Ruth Bonetti
Imagine being given a treasure-trove of hundred-year-old family letters (to the envy of ancestry.com habitués!).
They give voice and insights for my coming book 'Burn My Letters; Midnight Sun to Southern Cross' that nears completion.
Providence brought me to live in Sweden, directly across the Gulf of Bothnia from my grandfather's birthplace, Munsala, Finland. Spine-tingling magnets drew me to Finland to meet my father's cousin Rolf. My relatives helped me translate and uncover an ancestral story of emigrant brothers who fled Russian repression and conscription. Great-grandfather, having read that Australia is mostly desert, instructed ‘Go to the most easterly point; there must be rainfall.’ And so, our family history radiates from Byron Bay, in northern New South Wales, like beams of its lighthouse.
To uncover secrets and sift truths from myths, I've researched Finnish and Russian history, and found answers to questions like: Why did Russian military police search for Granddad's brother at Suez as he escaped in 1899?
A decade's research, writing, redrafts, polishing and editing is almost ready to submit to publishers. Watch this space!
See more at http://bit.ly/burnmyletters
They give voice and insights for my coming book 'Burn My Letters; Midnight Sun to Southern Cross' that nears completion.
Providence brought me to live in Sweden, directly across the Gulf of Bothnia from my grandfather's birthplace, Munsala, Finland. Spine-tingling magnets drew me to Finland to meet my father's cousin Rolf. My relatives helped me translate and uncover an ancestral story of emigrant brothers who fled Russian repression and conscription. Great-grandfather, having read that Australia is mostly desert, instructed ‘Go to the most easterly point; there must be rainfall.’ And so, our family history radiates from Byron Bay, in northern New South Wales, like beams of its lighthouse.
To uncover secrets and sift truths from myths, I've researched Finnish and Russian history, and found answers to questions like: Why did Russian military police search for Granddad's brother at Suez as he escaped in 1899?
A decade's research, writing, redrafts, polishing and editing is almost ready to submit to publishers. Watch this space!
See more at http://bit.ly/burnmyletters
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