Nanny Libby: A Warrior for Social Justice

I've always struggled to sort of reconcile the Nanny Libby that I grew up with. She was a warrior for social justice she would be on the picket lines outside news international picketing Rupert Murdoch when he moved to Australia. My nan had it really hard with my granddad you know being married to a convicted criminal and living that kind of life. There is this great moment in the book where my mum describes where my nan turned up at the building site where he worked carrying a very heavy bicycle chain. The idea of this sort of tiny little woman taking on this big bloke yeah it's brilliant so she is a hero in the story like there's definitely a redemption art for N

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