In 1940 at the age of five, Shelagh Duckham was evacuated with her family to North Wales where she spent the war years. They moved to Washington D.C. in 1945 when her father was offered the post of British Agricultural Attach? to the U.S.A. The family was repatriated to England in 1950 and Shelagh’s teenage and university years were lived in a land of post-war austerity.
In 1966, as ‘ten-pound Poms’, Shelagh emigrated with her husband and three small children from the city of Oxford to the small town of Levin. Describing the idiosyncratic characters of her parents and the many other interesting people in her life, Shelagh writes beautifully and insightfully about her childhood and early adulthood.
The book is marked by a sly wit and an engaging candour as the future Massey University sociologist and writer surveys a life inhabited by memorable characters.’ NZ Listener, July 2017
In 1940 at the age of five, Shelagh Duckham was evacuated with her family to North Wales where she spent the war years. They moved to Washington D.C. in 1945 when her father was offered the post of British Agricultural Attach? to the U.S.A. The family was repatriated to England in 1950 and Shelagh’s teenage and university years were lived in a land of post-war austerity.
In 1966, as ‘ten-pound Poms’, Shelagh emigrated with her husband and three small children from the city of Oxford to the small town of Levin. Describing the idiosyncratic characters of her parents and the many other interesting people in her life, Shelagh writes beautifully and insightfully about her childhood and early adulthood.
The book is marked by a sly wit and an engaging candour as the future Massey University sociologist and writer surveys a life inhabited by memorable characters.’ NZ Listener, July 2017
The Ventricle of Memory, by Shelagh Duckham Cox.
RRP: $34.99
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Where did Shelagh move to in New Zealand
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