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'A heart-warming evocation of childhood during the Great Depression . . . I loved every page.'BRYCE COURTENAYThe small town of Gundagai in the 1930s is no place for the attractive and flamboyant Belle Carson and her young son, Teddy - particularly when she longs for him to achieve the success that eluded her on the stage and screen. Determined to pursue this dream, she abandons her husband and their Murrumbidgee River home for a more vibrant city life. But Belle's obsession leads her and Teddy - whom the press christens 'the Murrumbidgee Kid' - into a world where nothing is safe or familiar. And from her carefully hidden past a threat soon emerges to make their precarious lives even more vulnerable . . .From rural Gundagai to the bright lights and shady underbelly of 1930s Sydney, this is a beautifully written and adsorbing story about an unconventional family's coming-of-age. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Belle Baker was pregnant and the father of child wanted it aborted, she chose not to, so when she meets George Carson she marries him, gives up her life in Sydney and goes to live in Gundagai, along the banks of the Murrumbidgee River.
Belle longs for her son, Teddy to be a star - something that had been elusive in her short vaudiville career. She takes him to Sydney and he finds a small part in a movie where he becomes known as The Murrumbidgee Kid. After a while Ted picks up job along with his friend Sally in a regular review and for 12 months Sally and Ted have a lot of fun, but then they decide they've had enough.
In the mean time George goes on with life without his wife and child in Gundagai until Bell becomes ill and dies, then life changes for Teddy, by then he knows who his real father is. ( )