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mrsfrozzie 's review for:
A Fortunate Life
by Albert B. Facey
challenging
hopeful
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
I first read this book the first year I was in Australia, some almost 20 years ago.
What an incredible, tough, life Albert has had. From being abandoned by his mother at the age of 2 and left with his 5 siblings in the care of his grandparents, to the whole family making their way to Western Australia and living in poverty, him never going to school due to having to work, being flogged so bad by a family he was slaving for he almost died and all the hard work he has done and taken on as a young man. He worked on cattle stations, he worked as a boxer, as a worker putting down railway lines, another building and fixing wells and installing rabbit-proof fences, then enlisted when WWI broke out and was sent to Gallipoli.
Yet through it all, you get a sense that he retained his spirit. He taught hinself how to read and write as a teen. He married a wonderful woman and had children whom he seemed to love very much and wrote this book.
It's a very interesting read, and it certainly makes you appreciate the life we have these days.
What an incredible, tough, life Albert has had. From being abandoned by his mother at the age of 2 and left with his 5 siblings in the care of his grandparents, to the whole family making their way to Western Australia and living in poverty, him never going to school due to having to work, being flogged so bad by a family he was slaving for he almost died and all the hard work he has done and taken on as a young man. He worked on cattle stations, he worked as a boxer, as a worker putting down railway lines, another building and fixing wells and installing rabbit-proof fences, then enlisted when WWI broke out and was sent to Gallipoli.
Yet through it all, you get a sense that he retained his spirit. He taught hinself how to read and write as a teen. He married a wonderful woman and had children whom he seemed to love very much and wrote this book.
It's a very interesting read, and it certainly makes you appreciate the life we have these days.