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SECONDHAND BOOK
This is the story of a woman and a cottage. The woman – actress, pioneer, teacher – embracing life, the old cottage nestling beneath the skyscrapers.
Lola Russell was born into a city that has largely disappeared. Melbourne as she knew it in the 1920s was a place where simple pleasures such as church picnics were the highlight of the working week and where communities stuck together through hard times.
Beginning with her own family, her story spans over a hundred years, marking the changing fortunes of theatre and film, secondary education and small business within the context of an expanding cosmopolitan city.
A vivid recollection told with insight and much humour, Lola’s memoirs are an important historical record of a city vanishing from sight and memory.
Specifications:
Condition: Acceptable – Book has sustained water damage, very warped but spine and pages intact, back cover is peeling, front cover stained.
Publisher: Palmer Higgs
Year: 2015
Format: Paperback
Pages: 234pp
ISBN: 9780994416148
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