Barbara Randell

eBook, ePUB

The Redgens of Redford (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Australia in the 1950s. I grew up on a farm, surrounded with cows pigs and chickens. Native animals like kangaroos, emus, and lots of other native birds shared the farm. We battled the challenges of country life-droughts, fire, and flood-in the absence of modern aids like electricity, automatic telephones, and reliable health care. I attended a one-room school for 9 years. As well as describing life on the farm, I share many memories of life in the 1950s... schooling; playground games; afternoon chores; clothes for both children and adults; pets; shops and shopping; radios; telephones; transport; holidays; grandparents and lots more.

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Autor

Barbara was born in a small Australian town in 1942, educated for 9 years in a one-roomed school with all grades taught by a single teacher. She then left home at 14, to spend 4 years in a girls' boarding school, followed by 8 years at Universities. After marrying and raising 2 daughters, she taught in high schools, universities and adult education for 20 years. She is now widowed and has a teenage grandson.

She has been writing stories ever since childhood, her chief influences are Jane Austen, Agatha Christie, and Ngaio Marsh. Her adult stories are mostly gentle romances. She also writes specifically about Australia: a memoir of growing up on a farm in the 1950s, and cosy mysteries set in scattered sites across Australia, all of which she has visited and knows well.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barbara Randell
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798201645243
• Artikelnr.: 63624830