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Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 Always Liza to Me : A Memoir for My Silent Sister
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'Always Liza to Me is the story of the Rice family, and of Liza, their severely mentally-retarded eldest daughter. It's a story about what it was like growing up in a large, rowdy household forever in the thrall of this unknowable, unreachable child.

'When she was small Cecilia, one of Liza's sisters, always believed she would not survive to adulthood, that she would never be her "problem". But she did survive. With warmth, wisdom and humor, Cecilia reveals how her family came to think of "the Liza problem" as theirs and how, through the passing of time and a mysterious process of acceptance and forgiveness, their fears and resentment turned into fierce loyalty and abiding love.' (From the publisher's webiste.)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2009 .
      Extent: 204p., [8]p. of platesp.
      Description: illus., ports (some col.)
      ISBN: 9781741751673 9781741751673

Works about this Work

Life with Liza: Love Prevails over the Anger and Guilt Candida Baker , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 August 2009; (p. 28-29)

— Review of Always Liza to Me : A Memoir for My Silent Sister Cecilia Rice , 2009 single work biography
Off the Shelf : Memoir Dianne Dempsey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 11 July 2009; (p. 29)

— Review of Always Liza to Me : A Memoir for My Silent Sister Cecilia Rice , 2009 single work biography
Off the Shelf : Memoir Dianne Dempsey , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 11 July 2009; (p. 29)

— Review of Always Liza to Me : A Memoir for My Silent Sister Cecilia Rice , 2009 single work biography
Life with Liza: Love Prevails over the Anger and Guilt Candida Baker , 2009 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 August 2009; (p. 28-29)

— Review of Always Liza to Me : A Memoir for My Silent Sister Cecilia Rice , 2009 single work biography
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