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The idea of home : autobiographical essays

The Idea of Home is a collection of five autobiographical essays, in which John Hughes reflects on growing up in the Hunter Valley coal-mining town of Cessnock, in a household ruled by memories of the Ukraine, from which his mother’s family fled during the Second World War.

Important places

Hunter Valley (16)

Regions

New South Wales (1,443)

Countries

Australia (6,814)

Other geographical areas

Great Dividing Range (Australia) (77)
Murray-Darling Basin (123)
Australia And New Zealand (4,260)
Oceania (8,442)