GRANVILLE: A MOTHER'S GRIEF is the tragic tale of June Ollerenshaw's life. From her first breath taken weeks premature June's life was a constant struggle for survival. For the first six months of her life she was so fragile she had to be carried on a pillow to avoid injury. Raised by loving parents June overcame her disadvantaged start and in turn gave birth to two beautiful girls Cathy and Lyndy. Tragically disaster struck Junes life on January 18th 1977 in the form of the Granville Train Disaster. Cathy and Lyndy 19 and 18 years old respectively were both killed in the crash shattering June's life and leaving her with no-one to help pick up the pieces. Battling depression and crippling despair June struggled to patch her life back together. With courage that inspires June reinvented herself and launched a career in fashion retail travelling around the globe and becoming a successful businesswoman. But throughout her life the dark cloud of tragedy has always lingered threatening to overwhelm her. GRANVILLE: A MOTHER'S GRIEF is the inspirational story of one woman's fight to overcome her tragic past.
Feminism is a cultural as well as a political movement. It changes the way women think and feel and affects how women and men live their lives and interpret the world. For this reason it has provoked lively debate and fierce antagonisms that have continued to the present day. Contemporary feminism and its concerns are rooted in a history stretching over at least two centuries. Feminism explores this history in a range of countries spanning the world. It asks does ‘feminism’ exist? Or are the differences among feminist today so great that we should speak of ‘feminisms’? The book looks at the challenge made by feminists to prevailing ideas about a ‘woman’s place’, the complex relationship between equality and difference, women’s solidarity and the relationship between feminism and other social and political reform movements.
This is the debut novel of 74 year old June Ollerenshaw who grew up in Granville, NSW. In Granville: A Mother’s Grief, she shares a personal story of tragedy, grief and loss.
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