Pumpkin

';Pumpkin is a sociological study rather a case study, with all the warmth of the human experience of one family, and especially of one girl growing up in that family' Betsy Wearing PhD';This is a truly beautiful book, a post-war coming of age Sydney memoirat a time of great societal changerich in metaphor and life wisdom, very much of its time; lyrical, poetic, sometimes serious, sometimes sad and laugh-out-loud funnycomplex, understated, warm-hearteda highly religious, innocent, left-handed, nerdy girl growing up on Sydney's Lower North Shore, in a non-affluent, stable and loving home.' Edwin Wilson FRAS