Book description
WHISPER is a collection of stories about a very special friendship:
between an Aboriginal girl called Edie, and a non-Aboriginal girl,
Maggie. Edie lives with her grandmother, though she has been taught to
call her 'Aunty Gwen'. There is no bitterness in Edie when she talks
about her mother having left her: just a matter-of-fact 'Mum couldn't
cope'. While world of the stolen generation and adults is in the
background for the girls, it's friendship that's important. Funny,
sometimes sad, moving and uplifting, WHISPER, with its stories of
Maggie, farm chores, mischief and the life of the imagination and of the
spirit, will touch the hearts of all who read it. Fran Dobbie teaches
at a primary school in Sydney. She is proud of her mixed cultural
heritage, being the daughter of an English father and an Aboriginal
mother from the Yuni tribe on the south coast of New South Wales. These
stories are based on her own life.
