Born Beneath a Rainbow Memories of a Country Childhood

by Judith Ellmers

judith Ellmers grew up on a farm in the Waioeka Groge between Gisborne and Opotiki in the 1920s and 30s. IUt was a wild and remote place then and 'for days on end the Gorge would be washed with rain or overhung with mist, and wreathed with rainbows.' Mother believed in a policy of 'watchful neglect' with her children, while Father and the 'Scotsbyterian' Grandmother were determined that their characters should be built by their elders. Apparently unaware fo any conflict, the children lived out their happy days of childhood"--Back cover.

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