ISLAND HOLIDAY
THE LAUGHING HOURS, by Daphne tp eros P. R. Gawthorn, Ltd. English price, /6. OUR children spend a holiday at Ngapohatu, an island off the southern coast of New Zealand. Here the roads are dusty white ribbons, the sea is turquoise and the white spray in the sunlight: looks like a necklace of jewels. A loose episodic plot gives numerous glimpses of this and that, the Maori, mutton birding, trawling and natural history. ("They say," John remarked, "that it takes a quarter of a century for a tree-fern to grow the height of a man.’’)
The character whom the author loves | is obviously Eva, the dreamer, the "sensitive one," who writes poetry and | possesses the awkward gifts of hindsight | and forevision. To quote a representative sample of the book: "She turned -away from the glow of the fire for a moment to watch the sea slipping round the rocks like a ring of quicksilver, and she remembered that. other occasion when her fear of some evil thing lurking out there in the darkness had resulted in the destruction of the octopus that had given* Marian such a‘*scare when | they had been bathing here, almost a
| month ago."
D.N.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 631, 3 August 1951, Page 13
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201ISLAND HOLIDAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 631, 3 August 1951, Page 13
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