Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Our Houseless Home : A Colourful Bush Childhood During the Great Depression
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'Lyle Courtney, the youngest of eight siblings, was born into a comparatively well-off family in Maryborough, a Victorian goldfields town, during the Great Depression. His mother died three weeks after he was born. When Lyle was five years old the family lost their house, causing their father to throw convention to the wind and retreat with the children and their aunt to a tent-camp in the bush. Set against an ever-changing background of the beauty, wonders and vagaries of nature, Our Houseless Home is a warts and all narrative. It portrays the challenging and whimsical lifestyle of a poverty-stricken family making do in those hard times. A true story of optimism, resourcefulness, loyalty and love' (Michelle Anderson Publishing website).

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Maryborough, Maryborough (Vic) area, Clunes - Maryborough - Dunolly area, Ballarat - Bendigo area, Victoria,: Eileen Courtney , 2010 .
      Extent: vii, 247 p., [8] p. of platesp.
      Description: illus., ports
      ISBN: 9780646526300

Works about this Work

Untitled Stella Lees , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 19 no. 1 2011; (p. 43-44)

— Review of Our Houseless Home : A Colourful Bush Childhood During the Great Depression Lyle Courtney , 2010 single work autobiography
Untitled Stella Lees , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 19 no. 1 2011; (p. 43-44)

— Review of Our Houseless Home : A Colourful Bush Childhood During the Great Depression Lyle Courtney , 2010 single work autobiography
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