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This is Surry Hills, Sydney now. Epitome of gentility.
But it was a working class slum in the 1940s.
and it was home to the working class Darcys, who live in desperate circumstances. The squalor, lack of privacy & bed bugs - this is as far removed from the romantic poverty of I Captured the Castle
as it possible to be. The family can barely afford to feed & clothe themselves (certainly not made an easier
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But it was a working class slum in the 1940s.
and it was home to the working class Darcys, who live in desperate circumstances. The squalor, lack of privacy & bed bugs - this is as far removed from the romantic poverty of I Captured the Castle
as it possible to be. The family can barely afford to feed & clothe themselves (certainly not made an easier
...more
I didn't know what to expect when I picked up The Harp in the South. The Retro-Reads book group had selected the novel to read in the fall of 2017 so I dutifully ordered the book. When my copy arrived it had the ugliest cover which made me not want to read it (I know, I know, "don't judge a book by its cover"). When my husband saw the cover he even expressed astonishment that the publishing company ever thought that that cover would sell books. So the novel languished on my shelf for a whole yea
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