Can My Pony Come Too? - Esmonde Peterswald, Rosemary

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Résumé :
'It's always hot in Australia. And you can ride your horses to school and tie them up under a gumtree,' my mother told us with a knowing smile, as we stared at her in awe. Gathered on a cold, misty morning in their Georgian mansion on the shores of Lough Derg in depressed 1950s Ireland, with debts mounting, this seemed like a dream for the prominent Esmonde family, including the teller of this captivating memoir, then seven-year-old Rosemary. Hardship awaits down under, but Rosemary and her family bravely fight back, seizing every opportunity and experience with courage and humour. Rosemary's remarkable story has many twists and turns as she moves from Tipperary to remote New South Wales, post-war Canberra, as a young bride to Papua New Guinea, apple orcharding and setting up a successful business in Tasmania and sailing the Mediterranean (where she and her husband Rob are compiling their fifth photographic coffee table book on sailing, seafood and wine). Come with her as we meet her illustrious ancestors (including two Victoria Cross recipients), encounter exotic countries and fascinating people, always living her life to the brim....

Biographie:
Rosemary's other books are: From the Sea, Beyond the Shore, Sea Dreams in the West ern Mediterranean, Sea Dreams in the Adriatic, 50 Romantic Havens, Coasting, 101 Greek Islands and Beautiful Waterways, all of which she wrote and photographed with her husband, Rob Peterswald. Rosemary has also published a novel, Bird of Paradise set in 1960s Papua New Guinea. Harper Collins (Mira)published her novel, The Homest ead on the River under her pen name Rosie Mackenzie, a name she also used for her most recent novel, Love in a Far Place. She is presently working on another novel and conducts a radio show on 4rph, Reading Radio in Brisbane called Lots to Chat About. She has a Youtube channel called: Lots to Chat About with Rosemary Peterswald....

Sommaire:
'It's always hot in Australia. And you can ride your horses to school and tie them up under a gumtree,' my mother told us with a knowing smile, as we stared at her in awe. Gathered on a cold, misty morning in their Georgian mansion on the shores of Lough Derg in depressed 1950s Ireland, with debts mounting, this seemed like a dream for the prominent Esmonde family, including the teller of this captivating memoir, then seven-year-old Rosemary. Hardship awaits down under, but Rosemary and her family bravely fight back, seizing every opportunity and experience with courage and humour. Rosemary's remarkable story has many twists and turns as she moves from Tipperary to remote New South Wales, post-war Canberra, as a young bride to Papua New Guinea, apple orcharding and setting up a successful business in Tasmania and sailing the Mediterranean (where she and her husband Rob are compiling their fifth photographic coffee table book on sailing, seafood and wine). Come with her as we meet her illustrious ancestors (including two Victoria Cross recipients), encounter exotic countries and fascinating people, always living her life to the brim....