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Loading... Dear Hearts and Gentle People (1955)by Ruth Park
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I loved, loved, loved this book. It is the mid 1920s in the small town of Te Kano on the North Island of New Zealand. Jenny Hood, 8, lives with her four young aunts ages 17 to 23, the Misses Admiral. She narrates (as an adult) the story of about a year in her life, when she becomes friends with Pou, an elderly Maori magician and survivor of the Maori wars; when Auntie Louisa is in love with a young man who raises pigs; when Jenny goes to stay with her Aunt Fedora who sees f-a-i-r-i-e-s and her grandfather, who terrorizes the family; when Jenny humiliates herself by pretending that an aviator is her father. The story is hilarious, sweet, sad, happy. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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The four pretty young Misses Admiral, having shed their tyrannical Scandinavian Pa, are kicking up their heels dancing the charleston, when their orphaned niece Jenny arrives from Australia to live with them. The child is as romantic and flighty as they. In spite of their game efforts to rear her respectably, Jenny joins the household as just one more frolicsome girl, though considerably shorter and with freckles. Dear Hearts and Gentle People is a playful pastorale set in a New Zealand country town in the late 1920s, where folk, full of simplicities and ironies, had an unspoken resolution to remain European in outlook, despite the besieging ferny hills, wild flax swamps, and the twilight forest of a Maori sorcerer. No library descriptions found. |
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