Doris Pilkington Garimara turns from the story of her mother Molly Craig, made famous through Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence, to her own life.

Born on Country under the wintamarra tree, Pilkington was taken as a child to Moore River Native Settlement, and this memoir traces the long aftermath of that removal: family separation, institutional control, survival, memory, and the work of finding language for what was done.

It is direct, painful, and deeply grounded Australian life writing — not only a personal story, but part of the larger record of the Stolen Generations and the bureaucratic violence that shaped so many Aboriginal families. A good pick for readers interested in Australian history, memoir, Indigenous writing, colonial policy, and books that refuse to let “history” sit at a safe distance.

UQP paperback, 2002. Very good overall, with light cover wear and mild page toning. Clean internally from photos.