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Part memoir, part observation. As a young woman Nikki Gemmell wanted to travel and see the world; adventure lay in running away from Australia, where she had grown up. But at 40, after 12 wonderful years in London with her husband and 3 children, she longs to connect with her past to show her children where their parents came from. But can you really go home again? With characteristic candour Nikki Gemmell looks at what it means to be Australian - in the past and right now.