Patsy Adam Smith: 2 books
by Patsy Adam-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
For Patsy Adam-Smith, the bright-eyed little girl whose childhood is recounted in the best-selling autobiography Hear the Train Blow, the Second World War was a ticket away from a cherished but restricting life with her railway family. The Depression had taken its toll and the glorious days of dancing...
Hear the Train Blow
The classic autobiography of growing up in the bush
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Patricia Jean Smith and her sister, Miss Mickie, grew up as railway children, their parents a station-mistress and a fettler. The catalogue of towns they lived in reverberates with the once-familiar clatter of metal and steam, but it was the tiny one-pub town of Waaia, in the centre of Victoria's...