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1 1 y separately published work icon Our Houseless Home : A Colourful Bush Childhood During the Great Depression Lyle Courtney , Maryborough : Eileen Courtney , 2010 Z1741180 2010 single work autobiography 'Lyle Courtney, the youngest of eight siblings, was born into a comparatively well-off family in Maryborough, a Victorian goldfields town, during the Great Depression. His mother died three weeks after he was born. When Lyle was five years old the family lost their house, causing their father to throw convention to the wind and retreat with the children and their aunt to a tent-camp in the bush. Set against an ever-changing background of the beauty, wonders and vagaries of nature, Our Houseless Home is a warts and all narrative. It portrays the challenging and whimsical lifestyle of a poverty-stricken family making do in those hard times. A true story of optimism, resourcefulness, loyalty and love' (Michelle Anderson Publishing website).
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