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A decade in the author's life when she struggled to find a home for herself and her three children. It was the early 1970s and she encountered a great deal of social and financial discrimination. She'd left a marriage where she suffered from emotional battering, and lost her eldest son for over a year. Medical authorities said she should be put away. Child welfare authorities said they knew best how to look after her children. It was an uphill...

The author writes an open letter to her three children explaining why she wasn't able to search for her eldest boy after he'd been abducted by his father. June returned to her home country with her two other children. Her anxiety about her lost child aged seven years was such that she was committed to a psychiatric institution. The book is about June's following long struggle in finding accommodation for herself and her children.

An easy to follow recipe book using a very popular seasonal fruit.

Reminiscences of growing up in Gisborne, New Zealand, which is a town serving a farming community. June lived by the Waimata River, she had her friends had lots of fun on the water. Gisborne is renowned for its beaches, too. There are tales of school age antics, and then more from when June was a young teacher in the country. The book describes wartime rationing, food choices available in NZ in the mid 20th Century, and the author's experience...