The Harp in the South (Harp in the South #2)
Ruth Park
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
4.00
· 18 ratings · 225 pages · Published: 1948
The Harp in the South is a nostalgic and moving portrait of the eventful family life of the Darcys of Number Twelve-and-a-Half Plymouth Street in Surry Hills, a Sydney slum. There grow the bitter-sweet first and last loves of Roie Darcy, who becomes a woman too quickly amid the brothels and the razor gangs, the tenements and the sly-grog shops.
Ruth Park is a classic storyteller. In this novel she brings to life a community where, despite the odds, life is always exuberant and full of promise.
(from this Penguin edition's bookcover blurb)
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The 'Harp in the South' series
4.00 · 18 ratings
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