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Diane Armstrong

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Diane was born in Poland and arrived in Australia in 1948.

At the age of seven she decided to become a writer. Her first article, about teaching at a Blackboard Jungle school in London, was published in The Australian Women's Weekly in 1965. Diane subsequently became a freelance journalist, and over three thousand of her investigative articles, personal experience stories, profiles and travel stories have been published in newspapers and magazines such as Readers Digest, Vogue, The Bulletin, Harper's Bazaar, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, and The Age. Her articles have also appeared in major publications in the UK, Canada, Poland, Hong Kong, Hungary, Holland and South Africa.

Over the years she has received numerous ...more

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Average rating: 4.07 · 2,507 ratings · 252 reviews · 5 distinct works · Similar authors

	Winter Journey 4.03 avg rating — 1,764 ratings — published 2006 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations 4.29 avg rating — 464 ratings — published 1998 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Empire Day 3.80 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2011 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The voyage of their life: The story of the SS Derna and its passengers 3.86 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2001 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nocturne by Diane Armstrong, Deidre Rubenstein (Narrator) 4.30 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 2008 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do a lot about the width and depth of it.”
― Diane Armstrong, Empire Day

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“As long as she was there, I was still the younger generation, but now that the last custodian of my past has gone, I’m in the front line.”
― Diane Armstrong, Mosaic: A Chronicle of Five Generations

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“Poland 1941 The madness began around the time of the summer solstice, as soon as the Bolshevik trucks roared away behind clouds of dust. At first everyone went crazy with joy. Barefoot children chased the departing trucks, poking out their tongues, yelling, and mimicking Cossack dances until they flopped down in the dirt. After the suspicion and fear of the past two years, the arrests and accusations and deportations, everyone was smiling once more. Even grumpy old Antos, who had sworn never to play his harmonica again, struck up a mazurka and hopped around on his wooden leg. It seemed to Piotr Marczewski as though a sorcerer’s spell had been lifted and his dead village had come to life. And”
― Diane Armstrong, Winter Journey

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