Girdles and Other Harnesses I Have Known

Joyce Harries's delightful collection of memoirs, fiction, essays, recipes and poems will dare you to laugh, cry and face head-on the small triumphs and larger tragedies of everyday life. From Joyce's vignettes of her childhood in the 1930s to the struggles and happiness of being a young mother to the heartache of widowhood, this wise and gentle collection will inspire readers to view their lives with reverence and hope: * I've Decided How I Want My 105th Birthday Celebrated If Cost Is No Object * It All Worked Out for the Best * What Mothers Don't Know * Footprints on the Wall * Vineyard Dreams on a Summer Night * Sixty-nine-Year-Old Me Talking to My Body * My Fabulous Fantasy Meal * Stampede Cattle Station * Romance at Windsor * Coming Home.

Product details

• Authors: Joyce Harries, Joyce Harries
• Assisted by: Shelley Wales (Illustration), Lee Craig (Editor)
• Publisher: Lone Pine Publishing,Canada
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.09.2000
• EAN: 9781551051543
• ISBN: 978-1-55105-154-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 55 mm x 209 mm x 133 mm
• Weight: 249 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries