If you believe in the power of dreams and intentions, this inspirational coming-of-age memoir set in 1950s Australia where an immigrant girl swimmer turns challenges and disappointments into opportunities for success is for you.
Henny was just a little girl when she experienced brutal violence and hunger in WWII Amsterdam, but she is now a teenage immigrant swimmer in 1950s Australia where she must learn to turn challenges into success. She is smart, she swims fast, and she has definite opinions about the kind of woman she intends to be.
She hears the timeless Land speak and sees the Southern Cross as a beacon when she walks in the bush with her father. She enjoys swimming star fame and championship victories and turns to the pool in her search to belong, to face fears and dashed hopes, until at every turn she sees more clearly her unique path ahead.
“Intentions are like prayers, if you pay attention they come back as destiny,” her mother has taught her. Is it intention or destiny that propels this young New Australian into her future long life?
- 221 pages
- English
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Social Science BiographiesTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Author’s Note
- Prologue: The Woman I Will Be
- 1. You Don’t Belong Here
- 2. The Land of Tomorrow
- 3. Chess Lessons
- 4. First Glimpses
- 5. New Australians
- 6. The Promised Land
- 7. Earth Wizardry
- 8. The Aussie Schoolmaster and the Dutch Warrior Woman
- 9. Making a Home
- 10. Visitations
- 11. It’s a Church!
- 12. Tennis Games
- 13. He Belonged in Ki Ki
- 14. The Move to Adelaide
- 15. Mates
- 16. Choice and Responsibility
- 17. Fame
- 18. A Galaxy of Swimming Stars
- 19. New Loki
- 20. Swim Through Adelaide
- 21. Ocean Swims and Beauty Contests
- 22. Working Girls
- 23. You Asked for It
- 24. The Winter Months
- 25. Changes and Champions
- 26. Female Issues and “Secondhand Goods”
- 27. You Are an Impostor!
- 28. Where Is My Hat?
- 29. A Brave Little Boy
- 30. The Americans
- 31. Serendipity or Destiny?
- 32. My Own Hat
- 33. The Mississippi Steamboat Gambler and His Moll
- 34. A Married Woman
- 35. Destination USA
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
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