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Absolutely Revolting
Memoirs

: The Woman on the Mountain by Sharyn Munro

Gillian Dooley reviews 'The Woman on the Mountain' by Sharyn Munro

by Gillian Dooley •
November 2007, no. 296

Sharyn Munro lives alone in a mudbrick house on a mountain near the Hunter River, many miles from the nearest shop or neighbour. In her late fifties, with arthritis slowly encroaching, she attempts to revegetate rainforest gullies, grows her own food and provides a refuge for wallabies, quolls and antechinus. Munro’s memoir, The Woman on the Mountain, sets out to explain this ‘foolhardy’ choice of abode.

 


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