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The Harp In The South: Ruth Park

The Harp In The South: Ruth Park

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Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills in the late 1950s, where money is scarce and life is not easy. At 12 and 1/2 Plymouth Street, their daughter Roie becomes a woman too quickly among the razor gangs and fish and chip shops; their younger daughter Dolour yearns for an education so she can get a good job and lift her family from poverty. This is a community brought to life and experienced by Ruth Park herself; when she and her husband Darcy Niland came to Sydney in the late 1940s, housing was scarce and all they could find was a rented room in a shared house. From here came the inspiration for this book.

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Large paperback; has been covered with Con-Tact to preserve the soft covers; tightly bound and clean within; light foxing to author bio page only, Modern Literature
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