A landmark Australian memoir of Aboriginal identity, family secrecy, and historical erasure — strengthened here by photographs that make memory tangible.

My Place is a foundational work of Australian life writing: part memoir, part family history, part act of recovery. In tracing her Aboriginal heritage, Sally Morgan documents what was hidden, denied, or deliberately erased across generations.

This illustrated edition deepens the book’s force. Photographs, documents, and images don’t soften the story; they anchor it. The visual material makes clear how history is something carried in bodies, houses, silences, and names. 

Still widely read decades after publication, shows how truth is pieced together under pressure, when official records fail and family memory becomes the only archive.