Grandma Magic :  True stories by and about grandmothers - Janet Hutchinson

Grandma Magic

True stories by and about grandmothers

By: Janet Hutchinson

Paperback | 1 April 2009 | Edition Number 1

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A book about, by and for grandmothers, also by and for the people who love them.

'We meet grandmothers who surreptitiously introduce their grandchildren to some of the more intricate workings of the world; others are clearly besotted and may even indulge their grand offspring shamelessly. Some, in their dotage, plot and scheme to set situations right. Others are alert to the risks inherent in interfering and do what they can to stay well out of the way ......

'We become acquainted with a number of grand women who have been largely disregarded for much if not all of their lives, even more so in their declining years. And we get to meet strong, resolute women who have carved a place of their own in this country's history...All are conjured up here, on these pages, in these words. - Janet Hutchinson

Grandma, Nanna, Granny, Gran, Baba, Yia Yia, Nonna, Nainai, Laol......

Welcome to Grandma Magic: stories told by and about grandmothe - grandmothers youthful and elderly, playful and strict, joyful, sorry and stern, exotic, ordinary. Stories filled with wonder and love and the mystery of bei - and havi - a grandmother.

Stories told by grandmothers themselves, by mothers who become grandmothers, and by the children and grandchildren who love them and share their love.

These twenty tales speak of unconditional affection, joy and laughter; of mistakes redeemed, of family secrets and patterns stamped on generations, shame and hardship, memory and loss. They take you into realms both familiar and unknown, on a voyage around many grandmothers that is rich, engaging and irresistible.

'There's that thing about immortality, the wondrous notion that every grandchild carries a bit of us in them and is shaped in ways they could never know by our pasts. But to me it's their mortality, not my immortality that matters. What matters is what I see before me now, and the changes I'm privileged to witness. How their stories evolve. - Sara Dowse

'I once read of a grandmother who'd fought with a crocodile until it released her granddaughter. Now I understood that fierce, protective and overwhelming love. - Gabrielle Lord

About The Author

Janet Hutchinson is a Sydney-based writer, editor and manuscript consultant who has been working in book publishing on a freelance basis for some 18 years.

Last year, with the assistance of Northern Territory Arts funding, she compiled and edited an anthology of writing from Central Australia (The Milk in the Sky, Ptilotus Press, Alice Springs, 2006). This brought together the work of some 25 authors, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, of both genders and of diverse ages, some of whom are well known, along with a good number of others whose work had previously been unpublished.

Janet taught creative writing for many years (until 2002), in both tertiary and community settings, but mostly at the University of Technology, Sydney. Her own creative work has been published in various magazines, journals and anthologies over the years and is collected in Desire and Other Domestic Problems.

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