My Father's Daughter: Memories of an Australian Childhood

Sheila Fitzpatrick

My Father's Daughter: Memories of an Australian Childhood
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Melbourne University Press
Country
Australia
Published
1 August 2010
Pages
266
ISBN
9780522857474

My Father’s Daughter: Memories of an Australian Childhood

Sheila Fitzpatrick

Teasing apart the many layers of memory, Fitzpatrick reveals a complex portrait of an Australian family.

How does a daughter tell the story of her father?

Sheila Fitzpatrick was taught from an early age to question authority. She learnt it from her father, the journalist and radical historian Brian Fitzpatrick. But very soon, she began to turn her questioning gaze on him.

Teasing apart the many layers of memory, Fitzpatrick reveals a complex portrait of an Australian family against a Cold War backdrop. As her relationship with her father fades from girlhood adoration to adolescent scepticism, she flees Melbourne for Oxford to start a new life. But it’s not so easy to escape being her father’s daughter.

My Father’s Daughter is a vivid evocation of an Australian childhood; a personal memoir told with the piercing insight of a historian.

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