6/23/2023 0 Comments The year the maps changed book![]() ![]() ![]() Other themes of compassion, perspective and “the moral compass” are also explored throughout the story. Winifred feels that she is being “left off the map” of her family and her journey to acceptance of the new family dynamic is a major theme throughout this warm and engaging story. The announcement of a new baby causes further conflicting feelings, adding to the grief that Winifred feels for the loss of her mum in tragic circumstances years before. ![]() One group of asylum seekers is assigned accommodation within Winifred’s community and their lives intersect with Winifred’s family and friends.īlessed with a loving grandfather and adoptive father, Luca, Winifred struggles with the changes to family dynamics when Luca brings his new partner and her son to share their home. Australia has agreed to accept Albanian refugees fleeing war-torn Kosovo, providing temporary safe haven for 6000 traumatised people of all ages. It’s a time of tension at home, locally, nationally and internationally. Winifred looks back at the events of 1999 and how they shaped her view of the world. But that’s another way that maps don’t tell the whole truth – because it felt like the distance I travelled was a lot further than that. I was eleven when everything started and twelve by the end. Or at least they don’t always tell the truth. ![]()
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