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Happy Valley
Happy Valley | Patrick White
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Happy Valley is Patrick Whites first novel, published in London in 1939 when White was twenty-seven. It was praised by, among others, Graham Greene and Elizabeth Bowen, and won the Australian Literature Gold Medal in 1941, but, fearing that he had libelled one of the families portrayed in the novel, White did not allow the novel to be republished in English in his lifetime. Happy Valley is a place of dreams and secrets, of snow and ice and wind. In this remote little town, perched in its landscape of desolate beauty, everybody has a story to tell about loss and longing and loneliness, about their passion to escape. I must get away, thinks Dr Oliver Halliday, thinks Alys Browne, thinks Sidney Furlow. But Happy Valley is not a place that can be easily left, and Whites vivid characters, with their distinctive voices, move bit by bit towards sorrow and acceptance.
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gradcat
Happy Valley | Patrick White
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1. Love “Happy Valley” 📺
2. A visit with my nephew, plus trying to organize house & finish books 🤞🏼
3. Nonfiction current events, journalism and/or true crime 🕵🏾‍♀️👩🏽‍💻👨🏿‍⚖️📰
4. Going outside to find (literally) my newspaper 🗞
5. A new iPad 💻
#humpdaypost @MinDea
Omigosh...I forgot to tag...AGAIN!!

Doughtah Ooh! Current events nonfiction re:Putin I liked it a lot and it was a v interesting view into Putin‘s history and tactics- 6y
EleniKara For journalism based definitely check out this one. It‘s super shocking and unveiled the truth of this turkey production company which basically had “employed” (and I use that super loosely) men with intellectual disabilities from the 60s up until the 2000s in terrible living conditions and just, it‘s unbelievable! 6y
batsy I've only watched the first season of Happy Valley but it was so, so good. 6y
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gradcat @Doughtah @EleniKara Thanks for the recommendations, you guys...I‘m going to check these out!! 6y
gradcat @batsy I am waiting, with baited breath, for season 3...do you have access to season 2? 6y
Elma Love Happy Valley! 6y
batsy Yes, I do :) As with most series I try to keep up with, just haven't watched it 😆 When will season 3 be out? 6y
gradcat @batsy I‘ve only heard of a pending date of Spring 2019, but that‘s for American Netflix subscribers...I should think the Brits will get it earlier...not sure where you are.... 6y
batsy I'm in Malaysia. I'm not sure how our local Netflix rights work, but that gives me time to catch up :) 6y
gradcat @batsy Yaaasss! Catch up with season 2...I hope you like it as much as you did season 1! 6y
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
Happy Valley | Patrick White
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Are you still in Happy Valley visiting @BarbaraTheBibliophage ?

BarbaraTheBibliophage Oh I wish I was! We just drove up to take our grandson to dinner that night. Four hours in the car for two hours of togetherness. #grandparentlife 😎 7y
Riveted_Reader_Melissa @BarbaraTheBibliophage Darn, you need to check all the author's schedules before your next trip! 😉 7y
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erzascarletbookgasm
Happy Valley | Patrick White
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#coverlovers #awesomeautumnbooks
Love some of these Vintage cover designs with patterns and prints.

Kalalalatja Wow! 😍😍 7y
TrishB Lovely pic 💟 7y
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quirkyreader
Happy Valley | Patrick White
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What do you find at Half Price Books after the big Thanksgiving weekend sale? There wonderful choices. I was able to take another Steinbeck off my want list. 🐸🐙

James 👍nice haul! 8y
TheLondonBookworm Liking the look of Breeder! 8y
rebuketodali PATRICK WHITE!!! 8y
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Heather_Reads
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I found a new bookshop today! Apparently it's been open for a few months in the shopping centre near my mum's house, but since I rarely go to that centre I had no idea about it. And my mum didn't tell me because she knew I'd spend money there. This, friends, is either an example of very good parenting or very bad parenting.

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Richard1
Happy Valley | Patrick White
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Patrick White's first novel was out of print for many years but was reissued a couple of years ago. It's a very readable and rewarding modernist classic.