The Resource Gifts for our time, Anna Jacobs
Gifts for our time, Anna Jacobs
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The item Gifts for our time, Anna Jacobs represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
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The item Gifts for our time, Anna Jacobs represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- Germany 1939, and Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport, unsure that she'll ever see her beloved mother and father again. Once in England she is taken in by elderly Mrs Pelling, who grows to love Christa as the daughter she never had. But in 1945 Mrs Pelling dies. While her will cannot be found, her money-grabbing niece appears out of the blue to claim her inheritance and turfs Christa out, with only a suitcase to her name. The prejudice against Germans still runs high in England, and Christa is unable to secure a job or a place to stay...Luck comes her way when a lady she saves from being mugged turns out to be Mayne Esher's friend Daniel's mother. Taking pity on Christa, they take her to Rivenshaw where they plan to start a new life as part of the Esher building firm. There Christa is welcomed with open arms and she soon develops a love for the place, the people and, Daniel...But Esherwood is not the trouble-free sanctuary she first thinks. Determined to do their bit for soldiers returning from the war they have agreed to allow the council to build prefabs on some of Esherwood's garden. But an empire-building town planner seems set on taking all of Mayne's land for the war effort...Mayne has also discovered a secret door at the back of the old Nissen hut, with a complicated locking mechanism that has local locksmiths dumbfounded. Just what is hidden behind the door to warrant such high security?
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 358 pages
- Note
- Australian author
- Isbn
- 9781473616370
- Label
- Gifts for our time
- Title
- Gifts for our time
- Statement of responsibility
- Anna Jacobs
- Subject
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- Australian fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Dwellings -- Conservation and restoration -- England | Lancashire -- Fiction
- Dwellings -- Conservation and restoration -- Fiction
- England -- Social life and customs -- 1945- -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Germans -- England -- Fiction
- Germans -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- George VI, 1936-1952 -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Lancashire (England) -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Architecture, Domestic -- Conservation and restoration -- England | Lancashire -- Fiction
- Architecture, Domestic -- Conservation and restoration -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Germany 1939, and Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport, unsure that she'll ever see her beloved mother and father again. Once in England she is taken in by elderly Mrs Pelling, who grows to love Christa as the daughter she never had. But in 1945 Mrs Pelling dies. While her will cannot be found, her money-grabbing niece appears out of the blue to claim her inheritance and turfs Christa out, with only a suitcase to her name. The prejudice against Germans still runs high in England, and Christa is unable to secure a job or a place to stay...Luck comes her way when a lady she saves from being mugged turns out to be Mayne Esher's friend Daniel's mother. Taking pity on Christa, they take her to Rivenshaw where they plan to start a new life as part of the Esher building firm. There Christa is welcomed with open arms and she soon develops a love for the place, the people and, Daniel...But Esherwood is not the trouble-free sanctuary she first thinks. Determined to do their bit for soldiers returning from the war they have agreed to allow the council to build prefabs on some of Esherwood's garden. But an empire-building town planner seems set on taking all of Mayne's land for the war effort...Mayne has also discovered a secret door at the back of the old Nissen hut, with a complicated locking mechanism that has local locksmiths dumbfounded. Just what is hidden behind the door to warrant such high security?
- Cataloging source
- QPPL
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Jacobs, Anna
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Series statement
- The Rivenshaw saga
- Series volume
- 4
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Architecture, Domestic
- Germans
- Dwellings
- Man-woman relationships
- Architecture, Domestic
- Germans
- Interpersonal relations
- Dwellings
- Families
- Great Britain
- England
- Lancashire (England)
- Label
- Gifts for our time, Anna Jacobs
- Note
- Australian author
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059477175
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 358 pages
- Isbn
- 9781473616370
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)949752079
- Label
- Gifts for our time, Anna Jacobs
- Note
- Australian author
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000059477175
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 358 pages
- Isbn
- 9781473616370
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Specific material designation
- regular print
- System control number
- (OCoLC)949752079
Subject
- Australian fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Dwellings -- Conservation and restoration -- England | Lancashire -- Fiction
- Dwellings -- Conservation and restoration -- Fiction
- England -- Social life and customs -- 1945- -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Germans -- England -- Fiction
- Germans -- Fiction
- Great Britain -- History -- George VI, 1936-1952 -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Lancashire (England) -- Fiction
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Architecture, Domestic -- Conservation and restoration -- England | Lancashire -- Fiction
- Architecture, Domestic -- Conservation and restoration -- Fiction
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