The Harp in the South

Front Cover
Penguin Group (Australia), 2013 - Fiction - 351 pages
Penguin Australian Classics: Australia's Favourite Books: Amid the brothels, grog shops and run-down boarding houses of inner-city Surry Hills, money is scarce and life is not easy. Crammed together within the thin walls of Twelve-and-a-Half Plymouth Street are the Darcy family: Mumma, loving and soft-hearted; Hughie, her drunken husband; pipe-smoking Grandma; Roie, suffering torments over her bitter-sweet first love; while her younger sister Dolour learns about life the hard way.

Other editions - View all

The Harp in the South
Ruth Park
No preview available - 1992
The Harp in the South
Ruth Park
No preview available - 2014
The Harp in the South: Popular Penguins
Ruth Park
No preview available - 2009
View all »

About the author (2013)

Born in New Zealand, Ruth Park came to Australia in 1942 to continue her career as a journalist. She married the writer D'Arcy Niland and travelled with him through the north-west of New South Wales before settling in Sydney where she became a full-time writer. She has written over fifty books, and her many awards include the prestigious Miles Franklin Award for Swords and Crowns and Rings; the Australian Children's Book of the Year Award and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award (USA) for Playing Beatie Bow and The Age Book of the Year Award for A Fence Around the Cuckoo. She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1987 and in 1994 was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of New South Wales. Ruth Park passed away in December 2010.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Harp in the South
Penguin Australian Classics Series
AuthorRuth Park
PublisherPenguin Group (Australia), 2013
ISBN0143569740, 9780143569749
Length351 pages
Subjects › 

Fiction / General
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan