A Song Worth Singing: Our Melbourne Days
Anne Doyle
Anne Doyle taught in Queensland schools before coming to Melbourne with her husband who was to work with Edmund Rice Education Australia (ERAA) to establish small schools for disadvantaged children.
She then worked for Jesuit Communications which published Madonna magazine, and discovered a life’s work of commitment to people who are doing it hard.
A Song Worth Singing is the story of that life: it speaks of the connection between family, work, meeting with good people in unlikely circumstances, travelling and gathering stories. ERAA features repeatedly in these stories, as do the people who have lived long in the social housing in West Heidelberg and in the Exodus Community.
Anne’s journey is one in which she allows the people and the places she meets to speak to her and to change her life. In her travel in India, on the Camino through France and Spain, along Hadrian’s Wall, in North India, she focuses on the interesting lives of people whom she met and who expanded her own vision of humanity.
In her story family, work, leisure, commitment to the needy and travel all come together in messy but harmonious ways. Her book provides her readers with a lesson on integration. Madonna Magazine must feel proud to have been part of her life’s journey, which echoes so many of the spiritual themes and human focus of this magazine.
To purchase, go to Amazon Books or email Anne at [email protected]
This book review first appeared in the Spring 2021 edition of Madonna magazine.
ISBN 9798577129828