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If walls could
talk & and these walls have! This book
tells the story of three grand mansions, now either destroyed
or abandoned, and the intertwining families who built them,
loved them and lost them again in the process of creating
a nation.
It throws a spotlight
on Victoria since settlement, through cycles of boom and
bust, scandal and community, poverty
and riches, and takes a peep into the private lives of
the English nobility. What emerges is a social history
of this
isolated corner of the world, culminating in its slow depopulation
over the past two decades.
Three houses (Myrngrong,
Wooroglin, Henham
Hall), three families (Cumming, Laycock, Rous), one cycle
of history that connects the past with the present
and shows us who we are. All are connected
through two abandoned houses in an isolated corner of the
Western District of Victoria, their fate shared
and foreshadowed by a lost English mansion. All share a past;
only one has the future. Just in time, Nobody s
Home records our heritage before it is lost to us, too.
ISBN:
0-9750548-5-6
Publication date: August 2004
Paperback
Retail Price: AUD $29.95
Where
to order your copy
This project has
been assisted by the
Commonwealth Government through the
Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
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