| Record Number |
793212 |
| ISBN |
9781925773385 (paperback) |
| Author |
Park, Ruth author. |
| Title |
A fence around the cuckoo / Ruth Park. |
| Publisher/Date |
Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2019. |
| ©2019 |
| Pagination etc. |
xii, 376 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 20 cm. |
| Series |
Text classics |
| Contents note |
First published in Viking by Penguin Books Australia, 1992. |
| Summary Note |
This first volume of Ruth Parks autobiography is an account of her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand, her convent education which encouraged her love of words and writing, and the bitter years of the Depression. She then entered the rough-and-tumble world of journalism and began a reluctant correspondence with a young Australian writer. In 1942, Park moved to Sydney and married that writer, DArcy Niland. There she would write The Harp in the South, the first of her classic Australian novels. A Fence Around the Cuckoo is the story of one of Australias best storytellers and how she learnt her craft. |
| Subject - Name |
Park, Ruth, -- 1917-2010 |
| Park, Ruth, -- 1917-2010 -- Childhood and youth |
| Subject |
Women novelists, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography |
| Novelists, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography |
| Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography |
| New Zealand -- Social conditions -- 20th century |
| Added Author |
Perkins, Emily, 1970- author of introduction, etc. |
| Shelf Location |
A823.3 PARK |
