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Picton, Denise,
author.
The family string /
Denise Picton.
Ultimo, NSW :
Ultimo Press,
2022.
329 pages ;
24 cm.
'Meet Dorcas... irrepressible, loveable, and her mother's least favourite child..." -- cover.
Meet Dorcas, a spirited 12-year-old struggling to contain her irrepressible humour and naughty streak in a family of Christadelphians in 1960s Adelaide. She is her mother's least favourite child and always at the bottom of the order on the family's string of beads that she and her younger siblings Ruthy and Caleb reorder according to their mother's ever-changing moods. Dorcas, an aspiring vet, dreams of having a dog, or failing that, a guinea pig named Thruppence. Ruthy wants to attend writing school, and Caleb wants to play footy with the local team. But Christadelphians aren't allowed to be 'of the world' and when their older brother Daniel is exiled to door knock and spread the good word in New South Wales after being caught making out with Esther Dawlish at youth camp, each try their hardest to suppress their dreams for a bigger life. But for a girl like Dorcas, dreams have a habit of surfacing at the most inopportune moments, and as she strives to be the daughter her mother desires, a chain of mishaps lead to a tragedy no one could have foreseen.
Tertiary/Undergraduate, General.
Mothers and daughters
Fiction.
Family secrets
Fiction.
Girls
South Australia
Adelaide
Fiction.
Families
South Australia
Adelaide
Fiction.
Australian fiction.
206
Christadelphians
Fiction.
Adelaide (S.A.)
Fiction.
Australian
AUS fiction (South Australia)
Domestic fiction.
lcgft
230
Religious fiction.
lcgft
2587
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