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A fence around the cuckoo

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September 1992, no. 144

A Fence Around the Cuckoo by Ruth Park

Penguin, $29.95hb, 0670846791

A fence around the cuckoo

by
September 1992, no. 144

In this first volume of autobiography, Ruth Park covers her New Zealand years – childhood, adolescence and early challenges of adult life. Episodic and frequently leapfrogging in its chronology, the book is firmly held together by a number of recurring and interweaving themes: the urge to write and the difficulty of acquiring an appropriate education; family relationships, at once close and hedged about with barriers; poverty and the Great Depression; and finally the problem of being ‘different’ combined with the joy of discovering kindred spirits.

Margot Luke reviews 'A Fence Around the Cuckoo' by Ruth Park

A Fence Around the Cuckoo

by Ruth Park

Penguin, $29.95hb, 0670846791

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