Winter (2000)
“I was having enough trouble just finding the courage to think of her as Aunt Rita. I mean, what do you call a great-aunt anyway? All I knew about great-aunts came from a story I remembered Ailsa, my friend at school, telling me: how when she was a little tacker her family went to visit a great-aunt in Mount Isa, and Ailsa somehow got the idea that great-aunt meant great big aunt, so she thought her aunt was a giant. All the way to Mount Isa she was excited, expecting to meet an aunt five metres... tall. She was tragically disappointed when they introduced her to a shrunken little old lady.
Maybe that silly story had lodged itself somewhere inside my head, because I think from the moment I heard about Mrs Harrison from Bruce McGill she started to grow bigger and bigger to me. The way Mr McGill talked about her, then the way Sylvia talked about her . . . it sounded like she had them both a bit nervous.
Ever since I’d started my campaign to return to Warriewood I’d felt I was running on my own fuel, with no-one around who I could trust to fill my tank.MoreLess
Maybe that silly story had lodged itself somewhere inside my head, because I think from the moment I heard about Mrs Harrison from Bruce McGill she started to grow bigger and bigger to me. The way Mr McGill talked about her, then the way Sylvia talked about her . . . it sounded like she had them both a bit nervous.
Ever since I’d started my campaign to return to Warriewood I’d felt I was running on my own fuel, with no-one around who I could trust to fill my tank.MoreLess
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