The Resource The family string, Denise Picton
The family string, Denise Picton
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Resource Information
The item The family string, Denise Picton 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
- Meet Dorcas, a spirited 12-year-old struggling to contain her irrepressible humour and naughty streak in a family of Christadelphians in 1960s Adelaide. She is her mother's least favourite child and always at the bottom of the order on the family's string of beads that she and her younger siblings Ruthy and Caleb reorder according to their mother's ever-changing moods. Dorcas, an aspiring vet, dreams of having a dog, or failing that, a guinea pig named Thruppence. Ruthy wants to attend writing school, and Caleb wants to play footy with the local team. But Christadelphians aren't allowed to be 'of the world' and when their older brother Daniel is exiled to door knock and spread the good word in New South Wales after being caught making out with Esther Dawlish at youth camp, each try their hardest to suppress their dreams for a bigger life. But for a girl like Dorcas, dreams have a habit of surfacing at the most inopportune moments, and as she strives to be the daughter her mother desires, a chain of mishaps lead to a tragedy no one could have foreseen
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 329 pages
- Note
- 'Meet Dorcas... irrepressible, loveable, and her mother's least favourite child..." -- cover
- Isbn
- 9781761150661
- Label
- The family string
- Title
- The family string
- Statement of responsibility
- Denise Picton
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Meet Dorcas, a spirited 12-year-old struggling to contain her irrepressible humour and naughty streak in a family of Christadelphians in 1960s Adelaide. She is her mother's least favourite child and always at the bottom of the order on the family's string of beads that she and her younger siblings Ruthy and Caleb reorder according to their mother's ever-changing moods. Dorcas, an aspiring vet, dreams of having a dog, or failing that, a guinea pig named Thruppence. Ruthy wants to attend writing school, and Caleb wants to play footy with the local team. But Christadelphians aren't allowed to be 'of the world' and when their older brother Daniel is exiled to door knock and spread the good word in New South Wales after being caught making out with Esther Dawlish at youth camp, each try their hardest to suppress their dreams for a bigger life. But for a girl like Dorcas, dreams have a habit of surfacing at the most inopportune moments, and as she strives to be the daughter her mother desires, a chain of mishaps lead to a tragedy no one could have foreseen
- Cataloging source
- QBOO
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Picton, Denise
- Dewey number
- A823.4
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Mothers and daughters
- Family secrets
- Girls
- Families
- Christadelphians
- Adelaide (S.A.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The family string, Denise Picton
- Note
- 'Meet Dorcas... irrepressible, loveable, and her mother's least favourite child..." -- cover
- 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
- 000071273081
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 329 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781761150661
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1301474321
- Label
- The family string, Denise Picton
- Note
- 'Meet Dorcas... irrepressible, loveable, and her mother's least favourite child..." -- cover
- 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
- 000071273081
- Dimensions
- 24 cm.
- Extent
- 329 pages
- Form of item
- regular print reproduction
- Isbn
- 9781761150661
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1301474321
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