First, however, some brief account of Lamb's earlier life is needed as background, both before and including the decade he spent in Adelaide, topics that are addressed in the next section. It is from this period that the four persons who were collectively crucial, first to his removal to...
was an artist and teacher at the local college in Adelaide (they never married, and split when Sia was 10). Sia grew up watching arthouse movies and putting on plays, talking in funny voices, pretending to be other people, dancing and singing. “That’s what got respect and love in my...
to see the expanse of green floor between the high flowering banks and it was alive with movement and huge forms. The great ray from afar was pinning her between the shoulder blades and trying to force her down again […] She felt the sun burning into the back of her neck as if it ...