Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter

by Pamela Jooste

Book Overview

'My name is Lily Daniels and I live in The Valley, in an old house at the top of a hill with a loquat tree in the garden. We are all women in our house. My grandmother, my Aunt Stella with her hopalong leg, and me. The men in our family are not worth much. They are the cross we have to bear. Some of us, like my mother, don't live here any more. People say she went on the Kimberley train to try for white and I mustn't blame her because she could...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0552997579
• ISBN13: 9780552997577
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Transworld Publishers
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.9" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Great bittersweet story, deeply moving

This is a great book showing how the women of a family support each other, faults & all. How families can sacrifice their need for love of a child to enable it to have a great future. Also how friendships can be made between the most unlikely people. One of the books I will never lend or give away!