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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Spindrift
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'Elizabeth is standing by the angry sea. Watching. Waiting for the dolphins.
Elizabeth, and the gulls are crying, and the bitter wind is catching the white foaming tops of the breaking waves, tossing them high and throwing a curtain of sea spray - a veil of fine blowing spindrift - across the wild shore.


'Watching. Waiting for the dolphins, to whom Elizabeth will give the spirit of her grandmother, dying of cancer in the house on the cliff top. It is thus that she meets the old beachcomber, 'Bull' Morgan. The simple story shows how, over the next few days, these two very different people share the pain of loss, and grow towards friendship and an understanding of each other. Elizabeth learns something of Morgan's unhappy past and the ways of the sea - as he learns from the girl a capacity to let loved ones go.'

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 1996 .
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      Extent: 79p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 014037843X (pbk.)

Works about this Work

[Review] Spindrift Janet Aumann , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 4 no. 2 1996; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Spindrift Anthony Hill , 1996 single work children's fiction
[Review] Spindrift Sue Clancy , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 40 no. 2 1996; (p. 31)

— Review of Spindrift Anthony Hill , 1996 single work children's fiction
Cover Book : Spindrift Kevin Steinberger , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 11 no. 2 1996; (p. 32)

— Review of Spindrift Anthony Hill , 1996 single work children's fiction
Stimulating Young Minds Cathryn Crowe , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 29 June 1996; (p. wkd 9)

— Review of Spindrift Anthony Hill , 1996 single work children's fiction ; Splashback : A Great Greasy Journey Errol Broome , 1996 single work children's fiction
Stimulating Young Minds Cathryn Crowe , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 29 June 1996; (p. wkd 9)

— Review of Spindrift Anthony Hill , 1996 single work children's fiction ; Splashback : A Great Greasy Journey Errol Broome , 1996 single work children's fiction
Cover Book : Spindrift Kevin Steinberger , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 11 no. 2 1996; (p. 32)

— Review of Spindrift Anthony Hill , 1996 single work children's fiction
[Review] Spindrift Sue Clancy , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , May vol. 40 no. 2 1996; (p. 31)

— Review of Spindrift Anthony Hill , 1996 single work children's fiction
[Review] Spindrift Janet Aumann , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Winter vol. 4 no. 2 1996; (p. 41-42)

— Review of Spindrift Anthony Hill , 1996 single work children's fiction
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