Between

Maria Seeto is caught between. She is dying in Papua New Guinea (PNG), instead of in Australia with her family. When PNG begins self-rule in 1975, Maria Seeto's husband insists it will be safer for his family to migrate to Brisbane, Australia. For the next thirty-five years Maria suppresses her pain of losing her homeland. This is centred on the town of Rabaul, where her culturally-diverse ancestors have lived for almost a century as a minority sandwiched between New Guineans and the colonisers, in which they lived through volcanic eruptions and two world wars, including Japanese military occupation. For Maria, leaving Rabaul also robs her of hope of reuniting with her estranged brother Henry and of the rare but heart-lifting glimpses from afar of her one-true-love, Stephen. In 2010, against all odds, she's back in PNG but she's dying. Her death brings consequences. Maria is the only surviving family member who can narrate the family's history in Rabaul, but in order to protect secrets about her biological relationships she has failed to do so. Her death not only means the history will be lost but also the truth will be revealed. Can the family survive these revelations or be strengthened by reuniting those in Papua New Guinea with those in Australia?

• | Author: Wendy Glassby, Cathie M Glassby
• | Publisher: Lily Ellen Publishing
• | Publication Date: March 05, 2021
• | Number of Pages: 288 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0648834107
• | ISBN-13: 9780648834106