A Fence Around the Cuckoo

“One of the best pieces of autobiographical writing in many years…a joy to read.” – Clem Semmler, Courier Mail

Written as vividly as any of her novels, Ruth Park’s autobiography is a moving, passionate, often funny account of the people and places which influenced her early years. Her isolated childhood in the rainforests of New Zealand fed her fertile imagination; her convent education encouraged her love of words and writing, and the bitter years of the Depression exposed her to poverty and injustice.