.Growing up in an Australian country town before World War I, Jackie Hanna and Cushie Moy are carefree and innocent in their love for each other. They are too young for it to matter that Jackie is a dwarf whose mother keeps the grocer's shop, while Cushie's parents are rich and snobbish. Theirs is an affinity they believe to be everlasting.
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Born in New Zealand in 1917, Ruth Park spent most of her adult life in Australia. She was widely read and well-loved for her books, which were as equally successful for adults as for children. She is best known for the novels The Harp in the South, Poor Man’s Orange and Swords and Crowns and Rings, for which she won the 1977 Miles Franklin Award.
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