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A daughter returns to the story that shaped her life... because when a child loses her mother to violence, growing up changes forever. When she was ten years old, Marnie Ross's childhood was shattered by a single act of senseless violence: the murder of her mother. Told through the eyes of the child she once was, this memoir traces a girl growing up in the long shadow of loss, the author's voice maturing on the page as she matures in life. This is not a story about a crime, but about how a young mind survives grief, fear and responsibility far too early. Some memories are sharp, preserved like photographs. Others are softened by time, yet still carry meaning. What follows is not the exact truth of how events happened, but the truer story of how they were lived. Interwoven with tender recollections of a mother lovingly remembered, Fig Trees is a portrait of a childhood shaped by love and absence, and of a woman returning to the story that formed her. Raw, poetic and quietly powerful, this is a memoir about loss, memory and the resilience of a child who learned too soon that the world is not always safe, but life must still be lived.

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Marnie Ross is an Australian memoirist and artist whose creative work is shaped by memory, family and the enduring power of personal history.Some stories wait decades to be written, and Marnie finally wrote hers after carrying the experiences of her childhood for more than forty years. Written across several months yet lived across a lifetime, her debut memoir brings together her own recollections with her murdered mother's preserved writings, exploring rupture, resilience and the inheritance of family. Dr Juliette Lachemeier is the managing editor of The Erudite Pen, a professional editing and independent publishing business. She helps fiction and nonfiction authors turn their writing dreams into a published reality and has published a number of #1 bestselling and award-winning titles.

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