Thule
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Author: Marjorie Law
Binding: Hardback
Published: Nelson, Australia, 1977
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Aging or marking
Markings: No markings
It is 1944 and Melbourne is in the grip of rationing and war fever. Steve has just lost her job and her brother Van is ill; they decide to make a sentimental journey to a country township remembered from before the war. Unexpectedly they acquire a derelict farm and settle down to a peaceful and self-sufficient life - Van to write a novel, Steve to churn butter and grow herbs and vegetables. But things don't turn out quite as they imagined. All too soon they find themselves fighting for their very existence. Marjorie Law depicts what life was like during World War II in a community that was, of necessity, self-sufficient. She conjures up vividly an existence in which electricity did not exist, petrol was in short supply and everyone helped everyone else, whether it was in repairing, a house or looking after a family who had fallen on hard times. Her descriptions of the countryside and country matters fill one with a nostalgia for a way of life which has all but disappeared.
Author: Marjorie Law
Binding: Hardback
Published: Nelson, Australia, 1977
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear
Pages: Aging or marking
Markings: No markings
It is 1944 and Melbourne is in the grip of rationing and war fever. Steve has just lost her job and her brother Van is ill; they decide to make a sentimental journey to a country township remembered from before the war. Unexpectedly they acquire a derelict farm and settle down to a peaceful and self-sufficient life - Van to write a novel, Steve to churn butter and grow herbs and vegetables. But things don't turn out quite as they imagined. All too soon they find themselves fighting for their very existence. Marjorie Law depicts what life was like during World War II in a community that was, of necessity, self-sufficient. She conjures up vividly an existence in which electricity did not exist, petrol was in short supply and everyone helped everyone else, whether it was in repairing, a house or looking after a family who had fallen on hard times. Her descriptions of the countryside and country matters fill one with a nostalgia for a way of life which has all but disappeared.