The Family String

Author: Denise Picton Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 A darkly funny and poignant coming of age story by an extraordinary new voice Meet Dorcas, a spirited 12-year-old struggling to contain her irrepressible humour and naughty streak in a family of Christadelphians in 1960s Adelaide. She is her mother's least favourite child and always at the bottom of the order on the family's string of beads that she and her younger siblings Ruthy and Caleb reorder according to their mother's...Read more