Complex sentence: In the 1950s, Myrtle "Tilly" Dunnage returns to her hometown, an Australian country town named Dungatar, to take care of her ill mother, Molly, from whom she was sent away at the age of ten because of false accusations of murder.
Split into simpler sentences: In the 1950s, Myrtle "Tilly" Dunnage returns to her hometown of Dungater, an Australian country town to take care of her ill mother, Molly. Molly had sent Tilly away at the age of ten because of false accusations of murder.