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Straddling cultures

An incomplete account of migration
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March 2024, no. 462

Slipstream: On memory and migration by Catherine Cole

Valley Press, £19.99 pb, 234 pp

Straddling cultures

An incomplete account of migration
by
March 2024, no. 462

Slipstream is both a memoir and an essay on migration. It hangs upon the story of one family, who migrated from Yorkshire (where this book was published) to Sydney in 1949. The narrator was their first-born in the new land and, as she tells it, her life has been one of constant oscillation, both emotional and physical, between England and Australia. It is a tale of her parents’ ‘exile’ and her ‘returns’ – to the country she only ever knew in stories, as she was growing up, but which became ingrained in her imagination.

Slipstream: On memory and migration

Slipstream: On memory and migration

by Catherine Cole

Valley Press, £19.99 pb, 234 pp

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