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'In 1969 we bravely organised two weddings. An Orthodox ceremony was then a legal requirement of the Greek State, but I wanted some English spoken over me as well. The first service passed in a sort of blur. Too late I realised that my squarish veil arrangement was not suited to the wearing of crowns...and I became rather confused about kissing hands and books... A short time later I walked down a familiar fleur-de-lis carpet towards a Presbyterian minister who welded familiar words and music into a brief service of blessing. It was George's turn to be confused.' Gillian Bouras is an Australian married to a Greek. From the ambiguous position of a foreign wife, she writes of life in a Greek village. Her fellow villagers fondly regard her, the migrant in their midst, as something of a curiosity. They, in turn, are the source of both her admiration and her perplexity.
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A Foreign Wife, Gillian Bouras
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- Released
- 1990
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- (Paperback),
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- Title
- A Foreign Wife
- Subtitle
- An Australian Writes of the Pleasures and Perplexities of Family Life in the 'Small Quiet World' of a Greek Village
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Gillian Bouras
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Australia
- Released
- 1990
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0869142356
- ISBN13
- 9780869142356
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- 'In 1969 we bravely organised two weddings. An Orthodox ceremony was then a legal requirement of the Greek State, but I wanted some English spoken over me as well. The first service passed in a sort of blur. Too late I realised that my squarish veil arrangement was not suited to the wearing of crowns...and I became rather confused about kissing hands and books... A short time later I walked down a familiar fleur-de-lis carpet towards a Presbyterian minister who welded familiar words and music into a brief service of blessing. It was George's turn to be confused.' Gillian Bouras is an Australian married to a Greek. From the ambiguous position of a foreign wife, she writes of life in a Greek village. Her fellow villagers fondly regard her, the migrant in their midst, as something of a curiosity. They, in turn, are the source of both her admiration and her perplexity.