Kathryn Heyman recalls the first time her body knew bliss

By Kathryn Heyman
Updated January 11 2017 - 10:08am, first published December 31 2016 - 12:15am
Leisure is for the rich, but the ocean, the lake, the river: these are for everyone. Photo: Simon Schluter
Leisure is for the rich, but the ocean, the lake, the river: these are for everyone. Photo: Simon Schluter

When I was eight or nine, we took a trip to the NSW north coast, my only experience of a family holiday. My mother, a single parent, working shifts as an enrolled nurse, frequently exhausted, had little time or money. But this was special: a return to Nimbin, to her childhood roots. A road trip with five of us squeezed into the hot Cortina, en route to a cramped caravan in Lismore.

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