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Crazy Chicory is the storyline of a voyage from Ireland to Australia in the first 1900s, along threads of love, family, war and peace. From the slice of normal life rich in history, folklore and story book and a portrait of the valuable bond between a granddaughter, Brigid, and her grandmother, Nell. From your windswept emerald seacoast of Region Kerry to the slums of Sydney's Surry Hills; and from the bitter sectarian assault of Ulster to the tranquility of rural New South Wales, Brigid weaves her grandmother's stories into a small but beautiful epic of romance and tragedy, of laughter and the chilly reality of damage. It's Nell's stories, large and true, that spur Brigid to write her own, too. In the long run it's a story of finding your ft in a fresh land - be that a new country or a fresh emotional space - and the wonderful trove of narrative we bring with us wherever we would go. In lots of ways Brigid and Nell are Kim and her grandmother, Lillian Kelly, and many snippets of story in this work belong especially to them. It is mostly a work of fiction, but while the Kennedys and the O'Halligans in Crazy Chicory aren't the Kellys and O'Reillys of Kim's own family history, they have got sprung immediate from her heart and soul and show listeners precisely how it is she had become a writer of stories herself.
