Through The Looking Glass (by Ed. Michael Gifkins)

• 1988 edition. 190 pages
• Publisher. Century Hutchinson
• Hardcover. D/j. Photos
• Condition. Very good.

Recollections of Childhood from 20 ProminentmNew Zealanders

Lauris Edmond recallls the Napier quake with someone's grandmother bucketing pinkly naked down the main street in a white porcelain bath....Bob Jones shoots himself in the foot and his family can't stop lauughing....Peter Lange learns early to subvert the system, under psychopathic masters with steel plates in their heads....Sir Peter Elworthy digs up dog bones and feeds them to the captive twins.... Phoebe Meikle recalls class and racism in Tauranga before WWI.

Thes and more are fascinating glimpses of times gone by.