Place, Fiona
Australia
Fiona Place has always been interested in women, medicine and language. She has been widely published including journals such as Meanjin and Down Syndrome Research and Practice. Her first novel Cardboard explored the issues of language and anorexia nervosa and won the 1990 National Book Council New Writer's Award. More recently she wrote her column "Debt & Equity" for The Australian. Currently she is writing about disability.
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ArticlesThere are days when having a child with Down syndrome can mean losing all hope of being an ordinary mother: a mother with run of the mill concerns, a mother with run of the mill routines. I know. I’ve had such days. I’ve also found that sharing these feelings with other mothers, even those who have a child with a disability, isn’t always easy. Or straightforward. In part I believe my...Read more
