Mim Ellis' inspirational memoir follows the threads of gold from her ancestry of French-protestant refugee silk weavers to a war-torn London childhood with parents from a bygone era, bomb sites, biscuits, and winkle-picker shoes. A 'square peg-in-a-round hole' on her arrival in Australia (1966), she was like a fading golden rose. Settling in Tasmania, 'the other end of the earth, ' Mim became a teacher, award-winning tourism operator, writer, poet...