Bøger af June Allen

Two one act comedies, with female casts. Sheep Ahoy! has the three cast members knitting. They're trying to promote woollen products. Amethyst is set in a stylish old time tea rooms. Five women in the cast.

Two plays with traditional songs included. Kilkenny Rose is set in gold fever times and tells of the lives of the women in the towns that existed then. Moonshine is about making illicit whisky using the recipe early Scottish settlers had brought with them. This latter is pure comedy; Kilkenny Rose has a more dramatic tone, but the women lighten the mood with their songs and dance. Kilkenny Rose has a cast of 2 men and 4 women; Moonshine may be played with a cast of 4 men and 5 women, with all but the lead character, Duncan, being doubled.

A Childhood at Cairnsmore is the true story of a childhood spent on a sheep farm at the foot of the Ruahine Range in the 1920s and 1930s. It is rich with details of country life in New Zealand - the homestead, riding on horseback to school, home baking and domestic chores. ' .. reminds us of how much has changed in our lifetime.''... a fascinating and touching story, and a valuable record of earlier days ..It reminded me of so much - shearing gangs, and even the long drop ...'

Two plays. The Pear Tree is about a woman who is visited by the spirit of her deceased aunt's sweetheart. He is very similar in personality to the woman's own daughter's boyfriend. The spirit and the boyfriend should be played by the same actor. It is a sweet piece, not intended to be spooky. Irene is quite a different story. It is biographical and tells the story of a woman resolving the difficulties she has had as the wife of an alcoholic.

A convict during the prison settlements on Norfolk Island in the South Pacific during the late 18th C. and early 19th C. tells of the horrors of those times. The colour photos are of buildings, some of which have been restored by the Australian Heritage Trust. The approval and consent of Norfolk Island Administration has graciously given permission for their use in this volume.

A decade in the author's life when she struggled to find a home for herself and her three children. It was the early 1970s and she encountered a great deal of social and financial discrimination. She'd left a marriage where she suffered from emotional battering, and lost her eldest son for over a year. Medical authorities said she should be put away. Child welfare authorities said they knew best how to look after her children. It was an uphill battle but June Allen won out; she abducted her children from the state welfare system.

The author writes an open letter to her three children explaining why she wasn't able to search for her eldest boy after he'd been abducted by his father. June returned to her home country with her two other children. Her anxiety about her lost child aged seven years was such that she was committed to a psychiatric institution. The book is about June's following long struggle in finding accommodation for herself and her children.

An easy to follow recipe book using a very popular seasonal fruit.

Reminiscences of growing up in Gisborne, New Zealand, which is a town serving a farming community. June lived by the Waimata River; she had her friends had lots of fun on the water. Gisborne is renowned for its beaches, too. There are tales of school age antics, and then more from when June was a young teacher in the country. The book describes wartime rationing, food choices available in NZ in the mid 20th Century, and the author's experiences driving a 1939 de Soto. This story of a young life on the East Coast in New Zealand is set in the 1940s and and 1950s.