Dear Hearts and Gentle people

Penguin Books (Australia), Melbourne, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. First impression. Size: 12mo Small. 202 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages lightly tanned throughout. Edges very slightly spotted or marked. The book has been read and may carry some marks and creases. This book is available and ready to be shipped.. 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. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction; New Zealand; 1920s; ISBN: 0140058540. ISBN/EAN: 9780140058543. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 8908. . 9780140058543