Elspeth Sandys (135 results)

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Paperback. Condition: New. Writer Elspeth Sandys was born during the Second World War, the result of a brief encounter between two people who would never meet again. The first nine months of her life were spent in the Truby King Karitane Hospital in Dunedin, where she was known by her birth name, Frances Hilton James. This would change with her adoption into the Somerville family. A new birth certificate was issued and Frances James became Elspeth Sandilands Somerville. Tom and Alice Somerville, Elspeth's new parents, lived with their son John in Dunedin's Andersons Bay. While Elspeth was happy among the ebullient and welcoming Somerville clan, she had a difficult relationship with her adoptive mother, who was frequently hospitalised with mental health problems. Elspeth's search for her birth parents did not begin until much later in her adult life. What she discovered after an exhaustive search provided answers that were both disturbing and, ultimately, rewarding. What Lies Beneath is a searing, amusing, and never less than gripping tale of a difficult life, beautifully told. …

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Writer Elspeth Sandys was born during the Second World War, the result of a brief encounter between two people who would never meet again. The first nine months of her life were spent in the Truby King Karitane Hospital in Dunedin, where she was known by her birth name, Frances Hilton James. This would change with her adoption into the Somerville family. A new birth certificate was issued and Frances James became Elspeth Sandilands Somerville. Tom and Alice Somerville, Elspeth's new parents, lived with their son John in Dunedin's Andersons Bay. While Elspeth was happy among the ebullient and welcoming Somerville clan, she had a difficult relationship with her adoptive mother, who was frequently hospitalised with mental health problems. Elspeth's search for her birth parents did not begin until much later in her adult life. What she discovered after an exhaustive search provided answers that were both disturbing and, ultimately, rewarding. What Lies Beneath is a searing, amusing, and never less than gripping tale of a difficult life, beautifully told. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint; First Printing. Light reading creases, minor shelf and edge wear, ink obscurred name to front endpaper, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First UK paperback editon, first printing with full number line. Nice tight copy. Cover artwork by Jaqueline Fahey. ; 384 pages; Kay and Geoffrey marry in the heady days of the 60s, confident that their youthful energy and optimism can change the world. But Kay is quickly disillusioned when Geoffrey abandons their plans to travel and, under pressure from his father, joins a law firm in Auckland. The couple grow steadily apart over the next three years, until Kay, in act act of ill-cosidered rebellion, forces Geoffrey's hand, with consequences that will drastically change their lives.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. At the end of the first volume of Elspeth Sandys absorbing memoir, What Lies Beneath, an adult Elspeth has solved the riddle of her birth parents and begun to piece together the events of her early life and find her place in the world. Casting Off begins on the eve of Elspeths first marriage. She and her husband will soon depart New Zealand for England, joining a throng of Kiwis who chose to uproot themselves from their native land. New attachments will be formed: new loves - of people; of places - will take the place of the old. But the home country will continue to exercise a pull. Backgrounding the personal story in this deeply satisfying memoir is the story of the Thatcher years and the creeping virus of neo-liberalism, the sexual revolution of the sixties, the beguiling world of books -- reading and writing - and theatre. Elspeth Sandys refreshing honesty and her skill as a writer of fiction and drama propel the reader through an absorbing life story that is equally a commentary on the meaning of memoir and the peculiarities of memory. Elspeth Sandys' refreshing honesty and her skill as a writer of fiction and drama propel the reader through an absorbing life story that is equally a commentary on the meaning of memoir and the peculiarities of memory. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor wear of covers (a crimp to upper tip, dissipating), less to text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Augmented with fine black-and-white photographs and illustrations of this fine writer's birth and life in post-W.W.I.I. New Zealand. [10], 11-223 pp. including an extensive set of facsimile letters and certificates.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Obsession is a literary mystery tale, the story of an obsessive love affair, and the repercussions long after the affair has ended. The two people at the heart of the story are writers. The third person in the triangle is a celebrated poet of Dalmatian extraction. It recreates the era in an atmosphere charged with New Zealand's 1980s culture, set in the very recognisable environment of Waiheke Island where the dense bush forms a metaphor for the difficulties of a struggling writer striving to raise her head above the dominating reputation of her lover. Parallels with Sandys's life with Maurice Shadbolt are undeniable Obsession is a literary mystery tale, the story of an obsessive love affair, and the repercussions long after the affair has ended. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. hardback, octavo, light foxing to closed page edges else a good tightly bound copy in a chipped and lightly rubbed pictorial dust wrapper that has faded to spine, the text is free of markings, 351pp.

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Deidre Byrne grows up in a remote area of rural New Zealand in an atmosphere of physical hardship and emotional deprivation. Despite her father's implacable opposition, she becomes a nurse, even though it means exile from her beloved father. The fulfilment Deidre experiences in her career is cut short when she agrees to an unlikely marriage with businessman Feargus McLean. By contrast, Sarah Dutton's background is one of affection and privilege. But when she falls in love with a radical artist, she has to face up to unresolved issues in her own family relationships. The loves of these two women touch only briefly. But there is between them a deep and mysterious bond that lasts for three generations and illuminates the complex emotional legacies of marriage and family life. Foxed. 534 pages.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A Communist in the Family: Searching for Rewi Alley is a beautifully written multi-layered narrative centred on New Zealander Rewi Alley and his part in the momentous political events of mid-twentieth-century China. Part-biography, part-travel journal, part-literary commentary, A Communist in the Family brings together Alleys story and that of his author cousin, Elspeth Sandys. In 2017, Sandys travelled to China with other family members to mark the ninetieth anniversary of Rewis arrival in Shanghai in 1927. One strand of this book follows that journey and charts Sandys impressions of modern China. Another tells the story of Rewis early life, in an insightful meditation on the complex and always elusive relationship between memory and writing. By placing the man, Rewi, and his work in the context of his time, Sandys is able to illuminate the life of this extraordinary New Zealander in a way that is both historically vivid and relevant to the world of today. Her focus on the role poetry played in his life both his own and that of the Chinese poets he translated so prolifically provides moving glimpses of the man behind the myth. Threaded through A Communist in the Family are Sandys evolving insights into a nation that looms ever larger in the day-to-day realities of New Zealand and the world. The strange and strangely intimate link between the two countries Rewi regarded as home is one in which he played, and continues to play, a crucial role. Part-biography, part-travel journal, part-literary commentary, 'A Communist in the Family: Searching for Rewi Alley' is a beautifully written multi-layered narrative centred on New Zealander Rewi Alley and his part in the momentous political events of mid-twentieth-century China. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Anna Creichton and George Trenwith marry in 1938 in the belief that war will not come. Their country, New Zealand, stands outside the European conflict. But within a year they are caught up in a train of events destined to change not only their personal lives and loyalties, but their view of their country and their place in the world. As the newly weds settle into their life on a remote hill country farm it is not just the present that threatens their happiness, but the past. George's father, embitted by an earlier war, is at loggerheads with his son, whose determination to fight if war breaks out threatens everything he has worked for. Equally determined to fight, but for very different reasons, is Wiri, the Maori farmhand, whose connection to the fanatical chief, Tuaka, brings an even older conflict - that of the Maori with the European settler - into play. Conficts old and new are at the heart of Love and War, but it is the personal conflicts faced by Anna and George in their very different spheres of action, that take centre stage. As the story weaves between Greece, where George discovers more than just the horrors and tedium of warfare, and the home front, where Anna, alone with her baby son, and her increasingly unstable father-in-law, is forced to employ a conscientuous objector to help with the farm work, painful choices have to be made. 384 pages.…