Hardback book "Power Of Joy" by Noel Hilliard.

First Edition published 1965 by Michael Joseph.

Good condition. Tears to top of cover. Pen underlining and occasional note.

"Paul, growing up in NZ between the two wars, turns from the squalor of the depression and poverty around him to the beauty and peace of nature.

His earliest memories are of an out of word father, resenting his idleness and the dole, nostalgic for the comradeship and sense of purpose of the war, consoling himself in drink; and of a mother too uneducated and bigoted to understand her own unhappiness and try to remedy it. Both father and son shut themselves away from her eternal complaining..."