My Turquoise YearsAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 31 October 2024
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**A funny, touching memoir of coming of age with an absent mother in a vanished time, with five added companion stories **
The setting is Vancouver Island, the year 1960. It is the era of The Three Stooges and the Red Menace, the apex of plastic, Arborite, and everything turquoise: high heels, pedal pushers, refrigerators, even cars. Throughout her childhood, Marion Farrant heard wild family stories of the sophisticated life her mother, Nancy, led far away in Australia. Nancys world of riches and men seemed light years away from Cordova Bay on Vancouver Island, where Marion lived with her aunt and uncle. But things changed the year she entered her teens. That year, Nancy threw everyone into a tizzy with the surprise announcement that she was coming for a visit. This second edition of Farrants beloved memoir of her fourteenth summer, capturing a lost time and place with love and hilarity, includes five additional stories and a preface by the author. Witty, tender, and wry, My Turquoise Years is a book for anyone who remembers being a teenager.
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