She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me

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She Left Me the Gun: My Mother's Life Before Me

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Radio New Zealand

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Radio New Zealand

Description

When Emma Brockes was 10 years old, her mother Paula made that pledge to her only daughter - "One day I will tell you the story of my life and you will be amazed". Emma knew her Mum had emigrated to England from South Africa by herself when she was 28 with a pearl handled gun in her luggage. When Pauline was diagnosed with lung cancer, she started to tell her daughter a little bit more about the life she'd left in South Africa: crushing poverty, a violent pedophile for a father, and seven hal...

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Date created

10 June 2013

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Afternoons

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http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons/audio/2558094/she-left-me-the-gun-my-moth...

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