Eleanor, Elizabeth

"The grey-green bush, red dust, and hard blue skies were so different from the town where Eleanor grew up, made friends and went to school. Now she was a new girl, having to prove herself and get to know an alien place."@en
"This novel revolves around three generations of females in the one family: a kind of personal record of the past, passed on by oral tradition and helping the person in the contemporary world to understand self and those who have gone before."@en
"The past becomes important when Eleanor and her family move to her grandmother's house."
"Having left the town and the friends of her childhood, a twelve-year-old Australian girl finds the land and the house of her grandmother to be an alien place, full of other people's memories."