Put It On The Slate
Ward, Shirley
$25.00
Shirley Ward was eight years old when her father died, leaving her mother destitute and with five children to raise. It was 1939. She writes:
The few sticks of furniture Mum had were sold, and the money paid for train fares to Warragul so that we could go to live with Grandma, Florrie Emmeline O’Hare Olsen, Mum’s mother. What a sad, pitiful sight we must have looked as the six of us stood on Spencer Street Station! A woman came up and gave Mum a bag of buns. She must have felt very sorry for us. On the train, Mum cried, so we all cried too.
The reader will cry too, as well as chuckle and laugh, but altogether enjoy this true story full of larger-than-life characters, skeletons in the cupboard revealed, true romance, and a rags-to-riches end. All recounted in Shirley’s inimitable style, which is both vivid and unsentimental.
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