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1 y separately published work icon Saving Grace Erica McWilliam , London : Austin Macauley Publishers , 2019 19472575 2019 single work biography

Saving Grace explores a century-old mystery about shame and madness in one Queensland family. Told with prim reluctance that her great aunty, Grace Baynes, went insane when her fiancé married her younger sister, the author seeks to know the truth. What really happened to Grace and why? Dramatically told just as Erica discovered it piece by piece, the family story she reconstructs is as engrossing as it is edifying. The narrative blends evidence taken from historical and medical records with contemporary psychiatric opinion to produce a compelling account of vulnerability and unconditional love in the life of Grace Clement Baynes. A woman lost to her family. A woman lost to herself.

(Source: publisher's website).
1 How to Survive Best Practice Erica McWilliam , 2001 single work essay
— Appears in: Tirra Lirra , Spring vol. 12 no. 1 2001; (p. 24-26)
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