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flag Clara Brack publishes memoir exposing family secrets about her alcoholic, demented father and silent childhood.

flag Clara Brack, the eldest daughter of renowned Australian artists John Brack and Helen Maudsley, has published her memoir, *The Secret Landscapes*. flag Subtitled “On Not Pleasing Your Mother,” the book confronts long-suppressed family truths after two decades of writing. flag It details her father’s decline from alcoholism and dementia, which ended his painting career in 1994, and breaks her mother’s rule of privacy to share childhood trauma and the emotional toll of growing up in a disciplined, silent household.

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