Laveen

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This memoir is an intimate glimpse into the heart of a woman who faced life's trials with unwavering strength and grace and offers a poignant glimpse into a bygone era in Brisbane.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Laveen's remarkable journey begins in the early 1930s in Australia during the Depression years with parts of her childhood spent living in tents along the railway lines. From learning to run a house at the tender age of twelve due to her mother's declining health to the direct impact of World War II on her family life in the 1940s.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Read about how Laveen and her husband Les found themselves trapped with two small children on a remote Queensland property by relentless rains in the 1953 floods and their perilous 22-kilometre trek through floodwaters battling mud exhaustion and morning sickness.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Feel the warmth of family gatherings the joy of new grandchildren and the spirit of a woman who held her family together through thick and thin.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(249 249 249 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Laveen's story captures the essence of a life lived fully and courageously woven with joy sorrow and strength.</span></p><p></p>