Preface; AN ESSAY OF FORGETTING; MY MOTHER'S HOUSE; COUNTRY TOWNS; A LIFE IN LETTERS; A WALK THROUGH EASTERN EUROPE; Endnotes; Acknowledgements
Summary
The Idea of Home is a collection of five autobiographical essays, in which John Hughes reflects on growing up in the Hunter Valley coal-mining town of Cessnock, in a household ruled by memories of the Ukraine, from which his mother?s family fled during the Second World War
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-205)
