The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar

The Mother Wound by Amani Haydar'I am from a family of strong women.' Amani Haydar suffered the unimaginable when she lost her mother in a brutal act of domestic violence perpetrated by her father. Five months pregnant at the time, her own perception of how she wanted to mother (and how she had been mothered) was shaped by this devastating murder. After her mother's death, Amani began reassessing everything she knew of her parents' relationship. They had been unhappy for so long

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drawn from an unusual collaboration between university researchers and Indigenous land owners

capital of the Northern Territory when it struck during the night of Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning

north of Maralinga

retribution

'The author writes with the immediacy of a fine documentary

and that most profound and elusive of subjects – happiness

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No-one really knows

it will be the revelations closer to home that change the rest of his story

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