close this book"I knew every single person in that school" : country life in the 1950s
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Community

Details the local gossip.

"from time to time there'd be a baby come along that definitely didn't look like the father and then the man who was the father of these children he met another woman and....... the first woman tried to run him down and kill him outside the pub one night"

Tells of a woman moving into the community who had lost her husband and children in the Tangiwai disaster and what happened to her.