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Anchor Point
Anchor Point | Alice Robinson
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When her mother disappears into the bush, ten-year-old Laura makes an impulsive decision that will haunt her for decades. Despite her anger and grief, she sets about running the house, taking care of her younger sister, and helping (…more)
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dearelina
Anchor Point | Alice Robinson
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This book has ravaged my heart. Heartbreakingly beautiful, tangible and real, quintessentially Australian. It is about the way one action can throw a whole life off balance, about how we are owned by the land we come from. Please please read it!!

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dearelina
Anchor Point | Alice Robinson
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"She felt drawn and quartered by these men, their ideas for her, their needs. Her own ineffectuality- decades of obedience, doing what she was told and doing it well- was so painful to the touch that she could hardly even finger the edges of it." 193