Rosalie Brockfield-Olding

Song of the Cicada (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Heather Buckland is a nine-year-old girl growing up in the late 1960s in the working-class Melbourne suburb of Noble Park. She has an older sister, Colleen, and a younger brother, Roland. Her grandparents and a maiden aunt live across the road. Heather is one of the less popular children in her area and is teased and bullied for her thin body and lack of confidence. Her very small group of friends is also ostracized for their appearances and social status. However, Heather always manages to triumph over diversity and enjoy the relative freedom the 1960s has, and she engages in various adventures. Her observations of other children, teachers, and adults are outlined in the story and incorporated as innocent and often hilarious ponderings. The vast differences of living in that era as compared to modern day are also implicated, particularly how children at that time relied on their imagination, internal resources, and outdoor activities to fill in their days without television and computer games.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Xlibris AU
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781503503724
• Artikelnr.: 52599986

Autorenporträt

I was born in 1957 in an outer-eastern, working class suburb of Melbourne. Even as a child, writing was my passion and created the draft for my first novel at the age of twelve. The concept of that original story appeared years later as a completed fantasy novel. In 1994, I followed my passion and completed a writing and editing diploma and was awarded the Herb Thomas Memorial award for new writers in 1995. Seeking out the peace and solitude needed to write, I moved to Gippsland, Victoria, in 2007, where I live on a small farm amid various wildlife with my horses, cats, and dogs.