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Author:Nicholls, Lois.
Title:Aussie, actually : a woman's honest and humorous account of what its really like to emigrate / Lois Nicholls ; [illustrator, Lara Nicholls].
Edition:1st ed.
Published:Kenmore, Qld. : Impact Unlimited, 2008.
Description:142 p. : 20 cm.
ISBN:9780980486803 (pbk.)
Dewey Number:305.4896912092
Summary:"Lois Nicholls is 3 months pregnant. With husband and clingy toddler in tow, she sets off from Durban, South Africa, to a sweltering Brisbane, arriving on Australia Day 1997. She is not prepared for the sheer magnitude of the move but battles on in a fog of homesickness using humour to get by. Aussie actually is a warts and all account of Lois's eleven year sojourn as a migrant wife and mother living in Brisbane, Australia."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects:Nicholls, Lois.
Women immigrants -- Queensland -- Biography.
Immigrants -- Queensland -- Biography.
South Africans -- Queensland -- Biography.
Queensland -- Social life and customs.
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