Lawrie Ryan Lawrie Ryan i(A23380 works by) (a.k.a. Sydney Lawrence Ryan)
Born: Established: 1928 North Adelaide, Adelaide - North / North East, Adelaide, South Australia, ;
Gender: Male
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1 3 y separately published work icon The Fairies' Midwife Lawrie Ryan , Rydalmere : Sceptre , 1998 Z386209 1998 single work novel fantasy In search of her unknown father, Mary Lightfoot - carpenter, nurse, animal- trainer and ex-detective-stumbles across an unexpected family drama. Two cultured old ladies are being drugged into senility by their greedy, hypocritical nephew; their housekeeper is dead; and a gang of thugs lurks nightly in the swamp at the bottom of their garden. The house is guarded by intimidating spirits, not least of which is Charlie, the swamp owl who occasionally, fleetingly, transmutes into a dragon....This warm, good-humoured story is a fantasy for adults in which themes of environmental threat, the renaissance of old age, female efficiency, the joys of art and the pursuit of evil are entertainingly intertwined.(Publisher's blurb on back cover).
1 Untitled Lawrie Ryan , 1998 extract novel (The Fairies' Midwife)
— Appears in: The Age , 18 April 1998; (p. 10)
1 4 y separately published work icon Turns of Phrase : Young Queensland Writers Lawrie Ryan (editor), Ross Clark (editor), St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1988 Z97430 1988 anthology poetry short story drama
2 1 y separately published work icon The Hole in the Forest Lawrie Ryan , Richmond : Hutchinson Australia , 1981 Z831896 1981 single work children's fiction children's
1 1 y separately published work icon Toog's Island Lawrie Ryan , Richmond : Hutchinson Australia , 1979 Z836029 1979 single work children's fiction children's historical fiction adventure
2 2 y separately published work icon A Boy Called Tully Lawrie Ryan , Richmond London : Hutchinson Australia , 1977 Z835906 1977 single work children's fiction children's adventure Living on a remote sheep station, with a morose and sadistic man called The Gunner, a young boy finds his allegiances challenged when a stranger arrives to break horses.
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