Her books for young adults explore themes of longing, the difficulties of fitting in, and the journey of discovering one’s place in the world.Ībigail Kirk is flung backwards in time to the Sydney of 1873-a time when Australia was not a unified country but rather a series of colonies between whom tensions and rivalries over trade and cultural differences were high. Park wrote several novels for adults, a series of memoirs, and an enormous number of radio plays, but at a certain point in her career began writing almost exclusively for children. In 1942, she moved to Australia and married another writer, D’Arcy Niland, and began publishing novels in the late 1940s-beginning with her groundbreaking debut, The Harp in the South, which unflinchingly exposed the gritty reality of life in Sydney’s poorest quarters.
Benedict’s college and Auckland University, she went on to become a contributor and editor to the children’s pages of several major New Zealand newspapers. Ruth doggedly pursued a serious education in spite of her family’s frequent moves, and after studying at St. Ruth Park was born in New Zealand, and lived a transient, working-class life for many years as a result of her father’s work as a manual laborer on road and bridge projects in northern New Zealand.
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