Dear great-grandson
By: by Christopher Waddington
Publisher: C. Waddington
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Muddiford, U.K; Rakaia, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9780473145583
Subjects: Immigrants; Biography
Other titles: Cover subtitle : This letter addressed to you with some embarrassment
Description: "In 1940, using the war as a pretext, a man despatches his young wife, against her will, to New Zealand with their young son. She settles in Auckland, and despite hardship, her sunny nature attracts friends to see her through life. Her son recalls their lives in Auckland of the 1940s and 1950s and then curiously replicates his mother's emotional dislocation, compromising his own sense of identity by returning to England. In this and in other respects, lessons for his descendants abound"--Back cover.
Notes: "In 1940, using the war as a pretext, a man despatches his young wife, against her will, to New Zealand with her son. She settles in Auckland and despite her hardship her sunny nature attracts friends to see her through life. Her son recalls their lives in Auckland of the 1940s and 1950s and then curiously replicates his mother's emotional dislocation, compromising his own sense of identity by returning to England. In this and other respects lessons for his descendants abound"--Back cover.