My turquoise years

Farrant, M. A. C. (Marion Alice Coburn) 1947- (Author).

Summary: My Turquoise Years is a touching, funny, and elegantly written account of a 13-year-old girl's life. Throughout her childhood, Marion Farrant had heard stories of the sophisticated life her mother, Nancy, led aboard cruise ships and in Australia. The exotic world of furs, jewels, cigarette holders, and handsome men seemed miles away from the west coast hamlet where Marion lived with her aunt and uncle, running wild on the beach with her friends and enjoying weekend visits with her devoted father. But things changed the year she entered her teens. First, a package arrived from her mom - a gift

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ISBN: 9781926812199 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1926812190 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (186 p.) : ill.
Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. ; Berkeley, CA : Greystone Books ; Berkeley : Distributed in the U.S. by Publishers Group West, 2004.