A novel of several parts set mainly around EUROPE
A Childhood at Cairnsmore; Growing up on a New Zealand sheep farm.
Location(s): New Zealand (Aotearoa)
Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs, Historical
Era(s): 1920s to 1940s
This is a memoir of days in the early and mid 20th Century of a girl who rode her pony to school each day; and what family life was like in a rural area of New Zealand. Gwen Mackenzie is remembers how the grocer drove to the farm each week to get an order from her mother; of times when the sheep shearing gang came each year to help the farmer; of local farming competitions where her mother got first prize for jams and baking. Rural life for a couple with seven children was never dull.
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