A review by lkateo
The Harp in the South by Ruth Park

4.0

Ruth Park has a nice storyteller style of writing (not surprising she went on to write the Muddle-Headed Wombat children's series). She paints a vivid portrait of a time and place and the people who inhabited it. The contrast between the 1940s poor inner city slum version of Surry Hills and its modern day incarnation as a yuppie suburb adds an interesting extra layer to the portrait painted.

Also, a great opening line: "The hills are full of Irish people."

Now to find a copy of the other books in the series.