Walk in My Shoes

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This sound recording of the remarkable text, Walk in My Shoes, is an interesting way to encourage students to visualise the text, and indeed, walk in narrator Gulnessa's shoes. Gulnessa and her family (minus her father who had been taken by the 'terror' in Afghanistan) have finally made it to Australia as refugees from war-torn Afghanistan. However, they have to negotiate all of the pitfalls and problems that go with being held in an Australian detention centre. Gulnessa and her family encounter both small and large difficulties, from never having eaten cereal for breakfast to not knowing whether they will be deported back to Afghanistan and issues with her mother's mental health, yet there is always some amount of hope for the family. At eleven hours long, this is quite an epic sound recording. Kellie Jones is to be commended for keeping the quality of the narration at a high standard throughout all eleven discs. Walk in My Shoes is a rather long novel and this Bolinda audio version makes it more accessible to those who would not choose to read such a lengthy novel. Expand reviews