Maralinga's Long Shadow

'Grandfather and Grandmother telling lots of stories. They had to live at Yalata. Their home was bombed. That was their home where the bomb went off. They thought it was mamu tjuta, evil spirits coming. Everyone was frightened, thinking about people back in the bush. Didn't know what bomb was. Later told it was poison. Parents and grandparents really wanted to go home, used to talk all the time to get their land back.'Yvonne Edwards was just six years old when the first nuclear bomb of the British nuclear tests was detonated in 1956. The consequences of these tests which continued until 1963 had a devastating and lasting effect on her life and that of her family. This powerful book, by award-winning author Christobel Mattingley, honours Yvonne Edwards' legacy as a highly respected artist and community elder.