Playing Beatie Bow
"If you love something let it go, if it comes back it's yours." The book Playing Beatie Bow (1980) written by Ruth Park clearly explores this statement and the true essence of love. Ruth Park makes you feel like a young girl who has fallen in love for the first time.
Abigail Kirk's family life was devastated when her father left her and her mother, Kathy, for his beautiful young secretary four years previous. Abigail had never forgiven her father, Weyland, for leaving them. So when Kathy announces to Abigail that she has been seeing Weyland, Abigail cannot understand her mother's behaviour.
Through looking after the neighbour's children, Abigail meets a "furry" young girl. Abigail follows the girl in order to talk to her, and finds herself in a strange, yet familiar place. She has entered into 19th Century Sydney Town a few blocks from "The Rocks" where she lives in the present day. Abigail "grows up" in the time spent with the "furry" girl, Beatie Bow, and learns the true......
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