Here Come the Marines: Warkworth, 1943 (My New Zealand Story)

Author(s): Lorraine Orman

NZ Middle Fiction | Factual Fiction/Real-Life Stories

In late 1942 Margaret Glenmore realises that daughter Joyce, who is doing a secretarial course, will probably be manpowered into a war job soon, when the age limit is dropped to 18. Her other daughter, Lillian, is coughing a lot and an x-ray has shown a spot on her lung.
Lillian needs to live in a healthy environment with lots of good food. These factors combine to make Margaret decide to send the girls to live with their grandparents on a small dairy farm on the coast.
Lillian's diary begins in 1943 when she and Joyce travel north to Warkworth to stay with their grandparents. Neither girl is keen to go. But at the end of February the US troops arrive - all 5,000 of them - and life becomes more exciting!

PUBLICATION FEBRUARY 2012

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Author Lorraine Orman was born in Auckland. She was educated at the University of Auckland, and
completed her training as a librarian in Wellington in 1970. A career librarian, Orman worked in a
secondary school library and a teachers’ training college library.

General Fields

  • : 9781775430766
  • : Scholastic New Zealand Limited
  • : Scholastic New Zealand
  • : January 2012
  • : 198x128mm
  • : New Zealand
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Lorraine Orman
  • : Paperback
  • : Redesigned ed.
  • : 823.3
  • : 880
  • : Black and white photographs