A Tear in the Soul by Amanda Webster - January 2017

Paperback / softback. New. An honest and deeply personal story of how a privileged white woman deals with the realisation that the children she grew up with were part of the Stolen Generation. A Tear in the Soul is a frank, beautifully written account of Amanda Webster's personal journey towards the realisation that she, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and idealised version of the past.

Sydney, NewSouth Publishing first edition - trade paperback, stiff card covers Born into privilege and wealth, Amanda, descended from white settlers and the third generation to grow up in Kalgoorlie. At school she became friends with Aboriginal children from the Kurrawang Mission. Forty years later, Webster returns to her hometown, confronts her racist blunders, her cultural ignorance and her family's secret past, and begins her journey of reconciliation and friendship. 210 x 136mm., pp. 6 (preliminaries), 330, Reading List. Trade paperback, stiff pictorial card covers. NEW. ISBN: 9781742235134