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Eleanor Spence Books In Order

Novels

  1. Patterson’s Track (1958)
  2. The Summer in Between (1959)
  3. Lillipilly Hill (1960)
  4. The Green Laurel (1963)
  5. The Year of the Currawong (1965)
  6. The Switherby Pilgrims (1967)
  7. Jamberoo Road (1969)
  8. The Nothing-Place (1972)
  9. Time to Go Home (1973)
  10. The October Child (1976)
  11. A Candle for Saint Anthony (1979)
  12. The Seventh Pebble (1980)
  13. The Left Overs (1982)
  14. Miranda Going Home (1985)
  15. Me and Jeshua (1985)
  16. Another October Child (1988)
  17. Another Sparrow Singing (1992)

Collections

  1. The Family Book of Mary Claire (1990)

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Eleanor Spence Books Overview

The Switherby Pilgrims

Eleanor Spence Miss Arabella Braithewaite of Switherby knows there is no future for the ten orphans she has gathered together in these years of England’s grim factory growth in the early 1820s. Her plan, quite outrageous in the eyes of most, is to take the children to Australia to take up a land grant. On a new continent, and after a daunting ocean voyage, the challenges begin. To the orphans it becomes a life giving adventure. Ages 10 and up.

Jamberoo Road

Five years ago, in 1825, Missabella and her ten orphans the Switherby Pilgrims had voyaged from England to New South Wales, in primitive Australia. Missabella, now, is determined to provide for the future of her orphans according to each one’s character. Not an easy task, with such a varied, ragtag, yet lovable set of personalities and backgrounds as they represent. Selina will train in Sydney to be a milliner; Paul may become a midshipman; Francis loves to farm. But what will satisfy clever, independent Cassie, who has ambitions to be a writer? The Jamberoo Road leads her inland, to the discomforts and enticements of being governess in a wealthy colonial family. Cassie’s story, interwoven with that of all the other orphans’ and their former farmhand Eben’s, is both an account of personal growth and a vivid journey into early day Australia. Ages

Me and Jeshua

Jude tells the story of his cousin Jeshua and his family. With Jude, readers will find themselves drawn to Jeshua and caught up in the mystery that surrounds him about his birth, about his real father, and about his future. Like Jude, readers will gradually begin to understand something of Jeshua’s secret. Me and Jeshua is the story of Jesus boyhood. It is attractive and compelling, a robust story full of insight, humor, and vigor. Yet it remains wholly true to what we know of Jesus and his times.

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