First Cuts are Deepest by Pat Malcolm

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has inscribed inside front blank page. Dust jacket has some minor creasing of top edge and a small scratch to back cover.

Pat Malcolm has been a battler all her life. She was born in Bruce Rock during the Depression, one of fifteen children in a poor, rural, working-class family who 'begged, borrowed and stole' to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads. It was a childhood of innocent fun and wild adventure, and of deprivation, physical abuse and humiliation.

At fourteen Pat Malcolm's childhood ended and her adult life began. In the next fifteen years, she worked in various nursing and domestic jobs, had five children and survived nine years in a violent relationship.

Then in the early 1960s, she headed north with the mineral boom and began a love affair with the great North-west. She worked on fishing boats and mine sites, in stock camps and hotels. She had two more children, made life-long friends, and spent six months in gaol before receiving a pardon from the Governor-General.