May’S Story

Coral Petkovich

dec 2014. · Xlibris Corporation

O ovoj e-knjizi

The biography Mays Story follows the long life of the protagonist, May, who was born in Hawthorn, Victoria, in 1908 and died in Perth, Western Australia, in 2009. Her mother took her not long after her birth back to Wiluna in outback Western Australia, where her father had a gold mine. From there, they went while she was a small child to the Swan Hotel in Fremantle, which belonged to them until 1921. Her father died of the Spanish Influenza in 1919. Subsequently May lived in Swanbourne, then in Victoria before returning to Perth, where she married and gave birth to two children. The biography includes historical events and descriptions of a way of life now lost to memory and soon to be forgotten unless we have written accounts. It is based on the life of a typical Anglo-Saxon woman of her time, with all her prejudices and faults, generosity and strengths.

O autoru

After studying English at the University of Western Australia, Coral Petkovich married a Croatian man and lived for twenty years in the former Yugoslavia from 1966 until 1989, with a period of just over three years back in Australia. In 1989, after returning to Australia, she gained accreditation through NAATI as a para professional interpreter and a professional translator and has been doing both ever since. She has translated poetry, a book called Seven Terrors, and another book of short stories, which has yet to be published, as well as many documents of different kinds. She is also the author of a published book, Ivan, Adriatic to Pacific, and several short stories.