Author(s): Jan Hutchinson et al

Biography & Memoir | For Grandparents

Grandma, Nanna, Granny, Gran, Baba, Yia Yia, Nonna, Nainai, Laolao

'I once read of a grandmother who'd fought with a crocodile until it released her granddaughter. Now I understood that fierce, protective and overwhelming love.'
- Gabrielle Lord

Stories of unconditional love, joy and laughter; of mistakes redeemed; of family secrets and patterns stamped on generations; shame and hardship, memory and loss. Stories told by and about grandmothers youthful and elderly, playful and strict, joyful, sorry and stern, exotic, ordinary, and filled with wonder and love and the mystery of Grandma Magic. Stories of remembered grandmothers, and mothers who become grandmothers, and the children who love them and share their love.
'There's that thing about immortality, the wondrous notion that every grandchild carries a bit of us in them and is shaped in ways they could never know by our pasts. But to me it's their mortality, not my immortality that matters. What matters is what I see before me now, and the changes I'm privileged to witness. How their stories evolve.'
- Sara Dowse