Accessibility Tools

  • Content scaling 100%
  • Font size 100%
  • Line height 100%
  • Letter spacing 100%

Her mother’s sentinel

An unmissable filial portrait
by
March 2022, no. 440

Inseparable Elements: Dame Mary Durack, a daughter’s perspective by Patsy Millett

Fremantle Press, $34.99 pb, 464 pp

Her mother’s sentinel

An unmissable filial portrait
by
March 2022, no. 440
Patsy Millett, daughter of Dame Mary Durack (Fremantle Press)
Patsy Millett, daughter of Dame Mary Durack (Fremantle Press)

Another book about a mother by a daughter, I thought when I saw this one, summoning to mind Biff Ward’s In My Mother’s Hands (2014), Kate Grenville’s One Life (2015), and Nadia Wheatley’s Her Mother’s Daughter (2018). But while each of those books presents an impressive woman cramped – sometimes tragically so – by her postwar circumstances, in this case we have a subject who was nothing short of a national treasure.

Susan Sheridan reviews 'Inseparable Elements: Dame Mary Durack, a daughter’s perspective' by Patsy Millett

Inseparable Elements: Dame Mary Durack, a daughter’s perspective

by Patsy Millett

Fremantle Press, $34.99 pb, 464 pp

You May Also Like

Leave a comment

If you are an ABR subscriber, you will need to sign in to post a comment.

If you have forgotten your sign in details, or if you receive an error message when trying to submit your comment, please email your comment (and the name of the article to which it relates) to ABR Comments. We will review your comment and, subject to approval, we will post it under your name.

Please note that all comments must be approved by ABR and comply with our Terms & Conditions.