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An Imaginary Mother by Bron Nicholls (2014)
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Overview: Bron Nicholls was born in Melbourne in 1944. After the war, her demobbed father took his family to an isolated region on the Broken Creek in Northern Victoria. Bron’s passion for books and writing began in that lonely, vast, fascinating bushland. Over the years, Bron has been a nurse, art teacher, English as a second language teacher, children’s book illustrator and tutor in Drama and Television at Rusden State College, Victoria.
Now in her sixties, she still regards writing as her main job. Her books are:
Move! (Heinemann, 1974)
Three Way Street (Penguin, 1982) ,
Mullaway (Penguin, 1986)—made into the film Mull (1988)
Three Way Street (Random House, 1993)
Reasons of the Heart (Penguin, 1994)
Zeno’s Paradise (Bruce Sims Books, 2000)
Some days, if the wash hadn’t been too grubby, Mum would scrape the hot ash from under the copper, let the water cool down, then plonk me naked into the ‘pot’. Grinning wickedly she would tell me I was being boiled until tender. ‘And then I will gobble you all up!’
Bron (author of "Reasons of the Heart") was Phyllis Nicholls’ first child. An Imaginary Mother is an open-hearted memoir of her mother and their intense relationship over fifty-six years.
Phyllis was a secretive, complex and unpredictable woman. Before her marriage, Phyllis worked happily as a designer in Vida Turner’s pioneering textile company. After World War II, with a young family, she had to cope with the isolation of a struggling subsistence farm, the tumult of her husband’s conversion to a rigid religion, and her own increasing mood changes between despair, melancholy and joy.
Yet to the end of almost eighty years, Phyll was also a stoic. She saw her ‘madnesses’ as the inevitable ups and downs of a full life, to be worked around with a mixture of courage, stealth, ingenuity and, whenever possible, with humour. An Imaginary Mother is a portrait in which the sitter and the painter are both revealed.
Genre: Non-Fiction Memoir