Castle on the Run by Gay McInnes. Earnscleugh station in Central Otago

Castle on the Run by Gay McInnes.

Publisher: Pegasus, New Zealand, 1969

Good hardback with jacket. Sellotape marks to boards and end-papers. owner's label partly removed from ffep leaving a small hole. Last end-paper has been removed. Binding firm, pages very good with minor marks. Jacket has marks, with fading to spine.

Castle on the Run is a woman's cool but loving look over her shoulder at a girl growing up in the big brick homestead on the celebrated Earnscleugh station in Central Otago. She remembers verandah cushions stuffed with rose petals, cascades of wisteria that drove honey bees wild and brought sightseers from far and near. But this is not another account of picturesque back country life - though heaven knows there was pioneering enough when Grandfather Spain first took up some seventy thousand acres of abandoned sheep country, it's bare hills moving with rabbits. By the 1930's Earnscleugh's hey-day was fading. A brick wall split both house and family; just as the child's lonely world was divided between golden days running wild and the stern routine of a convent school. Here is a brilliantly sharp sensitive picture of real people and places, observed with affectionate candour.

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