Harp in the South Trilogy - Ruth Park Audiobook

Written by Ruth Park
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 48 Kbps
Unabridged

This trilogy features the novels ‘Missus’, ‘The Harp in the South’, and ‘Poor Man’s Orange’ by Ruth Park.

Missus ; Prequel to Harp in the South

Missus takes us behind the lives of Hughie and Mumma, out of the gritty realism of inner city slum life and into the past of the stations, the bush and the country towns.

We meet them as they were in the early 1920s, drifter Hugh Darcy, the unwilling hero who sweeps the dreamily innocent Margaret Kilker off her feet. Ruth Park richly creates the turmoil of those early days of their courtship in the dusty outback, filled with beautifully drawn characters that will make you laugh as much as cry.

Harp in the South

The Harp in the South is a nostalgic and moving portrait of the eventful family life of the Darcys of Number Twelve-and-a-Half Plymouth Street in Surry Hills, a Sydney slum. There grow the bitter-sweet first and last loves of Roie Darcy, who becomes a woman too quickly amid the brothels and the razor gangs, the tenements and the sly-grog shops.

Poor Man’s Orange

The story continues of the Darcy family of Sydney.
Unforgettable characters enliven a story that is sometimes tragic but often humorous in a time of poverty and destitution, hope and promise.