The Haystack

Vintage Jack Lasenby tale set in Waharoa, the same town and Depression years as the setting for Old Drumble, and featuring some of the same characters. This time the protagonist is Maggie, a young girl being raised by her widowed father, with the help of the whole village. The whole of Waharoa is also banding together to beat the weather and bring in the harvest and build the haystack. Warm, witty, delightfully poignant story with fun, mischief, the burning down of a dunny, and ultimately a tragedy as seen through the eyes of a child.

ISBN: 9781869508524; ISBN10: 1869508521; Imprint: ; On Sale: 4/05/2010; Format: Paperback; Trimsize: 197 x 129 x 11 mm; Pages: 256; $19.99; ; BISAC1:JUV000000; BISAC2:008-136

	Calling the Gods Thrown hard on the bottom boards, I stared up at distorted mouths, faces so red I could feel their heat. They stank of rage and of something else; several frothed at the mouth; their howls drowned the clatter and shriek of gulls swerving and tilting above the mast. Banishment is the...
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