Ruth Park — A Fence Around the Cuckoo
Penguin Books Australia Ltd 1993 Paperback, 293pp. Paperback edition of the first volume of an autobiography by this acclaimed Australian writer. It follows her life from her childhood in the remote rainforests of New Zealand through to the Depression years and her friendship with the author she was to marry, D'Arcy Niland. Park's novels include 'The Harp in the South', the Miles Franklin Award-winning 'Swords and Crowns and Rings', and children's novels including 'Playing Beatie Bow', winner of the 1981 Children's Book of the Year Award. First published in 1992. Foxed, tanned. (ISBN: 9780140173338). Fair.