Where Where the Heart Should Be by Sarah Crossan

Where Where the Heart Should Be by Sarah CrossanIreland, 1846 Nell is working as a scullery maid in the kitchen of the Big House. Once she loved school and books and dreaming. But there's not much choice of work when the land grows food that rots in the earth. Now she is scrubbing, peeling, washing, sweeping for Sir Philip Wicken, the man who owns her home, her family's land, their crops, everything. His dogs are always well fed, even as famine sets in. Upstairs in the Big House, where Nell is

I had to work for the most difficult boss I'd ever met

Only Myfanwy and two women who detest each other can seek out the culprits before they trigger a devastating otherworldly war

Recorded and translated here for the first time are stories rich with insight into Aboriginal spirituality and life - on subjects as diverse as adolescence

But there are victories

Fire and low rainfall shape the plant communities that exist in the many and varied landscapes of this region

is a great trial to Lud

With raw honesty and vulnerability

The death of his adored sister

Liman spoke Batjamalh

Her milestones and memories reflect the experiences of many dormitory girls

it will cover the lessons from the past

} A collective memoir of one of Aboriginal Australia's most charismatic leaders and an epic portrait of a period in the life of a country