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Issue Details: First known date: 1935... 1935 The Sleeping Child
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'Audrey Chevening is the orphan daughter of a shell-shocked, nerve racked soldier who, in a moment of mania, shot his unfaithful wife and then committed suicide. The child of seven is supposed to have been asleep during this tragedy; her father's cousins, George and Anne Chevering, adopt her and bring her up with their own three little girls, and she has a happy life, surrounded with every comfort and loving care. She is a charming girl with a refreshing sense of humour—is happily engaged to an equally nice young man who owns a neighbouring estate. Buti a chance letter from an undesirable friend of her father arouses her sub-conscious mind to a recollection of this grim past, and she is filled with horror at the possibility of having inherited any trait that would infit her to be the wife of her adored Miles. Aunt Anne, realising Audrey's problem, treats it with sanity and loving sympathy, and so reassures the anxious child, so that the book concludes on a happy note.'

Source:

Publishing blurb, Queensland Figaro, 14 September 1935, p.12.

Notes

  • Associated with ANZAC dataset because the key action is triggered in part by the father's military service in WWI.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
      c
      England,
      c
      c
      United Kingdom (UK),
      c
      Western Europe, Europe,
      :
      Hodder and Stoughton ,
      1935 .
      Extent: 310,[8] p.p.
      Description: illus.
      Note/s:
      • Includes 8 pages of advertisements.
    • New York (City), New York (State),
      c
      United States of America (USA),
      c
      Americas,
      :
      Minton, Balch ,
      1935 .
      Extent: 4 p. l., 3-270 p.p.

Works about this Work

A Bookseller Writes About New Novels 1935 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 3 December vol. 7 no. 12 1935; (p. 212-215)
A wide-ranging set of recommendations divided into "good prose", "popular good novels", "popular light novels" and "romance and adventure". Most books recommended are not Australian but the author gives insight into their popularity with book buyers.
A Bookseller Writes About New Novels 1935 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 3 December vol. 7 no. 12 1935; (p. 212-215)
A wide-ranging set of recommendations divided into "good prose", "popular good novels", "popular light novels" and "romance and adventure". Most books recommended are not Australian but the author gives insight into their popularity with book buyers.
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