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Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 The Humming Tree
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'But there was no canopy of flowers in mid-winter, of course. 
Even the tough, dark-green, pointed leaves appeared to be
unhappy, turning brown on their edges, perhaps drought-stricken.

     'I closed my eyes, hugged my knees, and the little tree was
 in flower again—clouds of apricot-pink blossom, the colour of sunrise,
 and buzzing with thousands of wild honey-bees. I was never afraid
 of the bees. They ignored me, and the dogs.

'The Humming Tree, Memories of an Eccentric Childhood is a captivating collection of stories about childhood. It is a companion volume to Bron Nicholl’s earlier An Imaginary Mother. Now the focus is on the father of the family, and his disturbing transition from an easy-going, jovial man, into somebody inflexible, harsh and oppressive.
 
'The time is the decade following World-War II; the place is the flat, dry country of Northern Victoria, where John Nicholls built up a small but flourishing subsistence farm, and then abandoned it, forcing his family into another place, another life.
 
'Writing with both a child’s viewpoint and an adult’s insight, Bron has created a series of pictures filled with finely-drawn detail, subtle colours, and life’s unavoidable deep shadows.
 
'The Humming Tree is a biography of the rural poor. There is not a murmur of rancour. It is ‘a fortunate life’.' (Publication summary)

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    • Fitzroy North, Fitzroy - Collingwood area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,: Black Pepper , 2017 .
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      Extent: 106p.
      Description: viii
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      • Published 2017

      ISBN: 9781876044527
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