Against the Odds: The History of My Family in Verse by Laura Audrey Trigwell

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition except small discoloured mark on back cover.

Subtitled Malo Mori Quam Torbari - Rather Death than Dishonour. Written by the great-great-granddaughter of George and Julia Payne.

In 1927, Laurel Audrey Trigwell was born in Donnybrook, Western Australia, to a family of farmers.

This book of verses brings to life some of the challenges and hardships that befell her ancestors on arrival from England to the Colony of Western Australia in 1841 to the present day.

Laurel overcame her trials and tribulations and, with failing eyesight and against the odds' achieved her desire to write and complete this story at 90 years of age.