Beryl Fletcher

THE HOUSE AT KARAMU is the true story of one woman’s life but it is also the story of many others of her generation. Set in New Zealand and Australia, this memoir evokes the pre-feminist world of rigid sex-roles in the fifties and sixties. Sent away at the age of six to an old kauri schoolhouse in the remote settlement of Karamu in the Waikato district of New Zealand, she discovered books and spent many nights reading by candlelight. In later years, living in poverty in King’s Cross and later in a shack in the bush in NSW, Karamu became a symbolic landscape of safety that has greatly influenced her personal life and the themes of her novels.

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Available from Spinifex Press for worldwide distribution.
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