Alli Parker, 35, Bayswater North, Vic
I coulddo a better job of writing than this, I thought, slamming the book closed.
The story was about the life of Cherry Parker – the first Japanese war bride in Australia. I was only 11, but it was a story close to my heart. Cherry and her husband Gordon were my grandparents.
I’d grown up knowing that my dad Rob’s father, Gordon had met my grandma in Japan in 1946, after the war.
The whole
