'In 1940, a seventeen year old girl Carys Harding Browne comes of age in Adelaide, Australia. At this time young clever men meet together at St Mark's University College to share their love of poetry. By December 1940, St Mark's is leased to the Royal Australian Airforce as an embarkation depot. The Second World War is in earnest. This story is about young people growing up and falling in love against the backdrop of war where dances, friendship and the arts become a consolation in a fragile and uncertain time. It is, above all, the diary of a young girl finding herself amidst the impact of war.' (Publication summary)
'Part of Adelaide's literary set of the 1940s, Carys Harding Browne wrote diaries that reveal how this fledgling group of influential writers and thinkers grew up and fell in love against a backdrop of World War II. Ann Barson, who edited the diaries for the book Carys: Diary of a Young Girl, Adelaide 1940-42, explains how she found and then edited her mother's diaries.' (Introduction)
'Part of Adelaide's literary set of the 1940s, Carys Harding Browne wrote diaries that reveal how this fledgling group of influential writers and thinkers grew up and fell in love against a backdrop of World War II. Ann Barson, who edited the diaries for the book Carys: Diary of a Young Girl, Adelaide 1940-42, explains how she found and then edited her mother's diaries.' (Introduction)
