The Sparrows of Edward Street

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Sparrows of Edward Street | Elizabeth Stead

Guys.....LOVING this book.

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The Sparrows of Edward Street | Elizabeth Stead

Like butter! Beautiful words and sentences. Other sentences like keeping windows closed "perhaps to keep despair locked inside." Happy with my choice to reach for this one from my (Kobo) shelf. ?

Marchpane This book is so good! 💕 7y

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Sparrows of Edward Street | Elizabeth Stead

Because the covers are all so lovely, here's a snapshot of what I'm #CurrentlyReading. The Woman on the Orient Express is audio. The other two are e-books.

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Lizpixie

The Sparrows of Edward Street | Elizabeth Stead

I swear bookdepository.com is trying to annoy my hubby deliberately. When your order comes one book at a time, it makes it look like a much bigger spend than it really is.🤦🏼‍♀️Today's #bookmail is another Dame Agatha & an Australian author, set in post war Sydney, a #blameitonlitsy purchase. Plus a beautiful bookmark. I'm really loving this set. #SmileItsBookmas🎄#christiescrimeclub

readinginthedark 😂I always feel like people send my packages that way! 7y

Dragon Love the cover of your Christie 💕 7y

Lizpixie @readinginthedark Right? I'd rather one slightly big box instead of six seperate packages on six different days! @Dragon I'm slowly collecting the whole set of this series. My daughter was given fifteen of them by an ex boyfriend & passed them on to me because she knows I'm a huge fan. Score! 7y

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TheLondonBookworm Hehe it's great to get book mail though!! 7y

minkyb Ha! That is so true @Lizpixie! 7y

ChasingOm Not book related, but I didn't realize we now have a face palm emoji!! I've been wanting one for years, lol...and now I've gone down the 🐰hole of new emojis. 7y

GlitteryOtters I can't wait to hear what you think of Sparrows! It sounds so good, I have it on my not-yet-purchased TBR list & really want to read it. 7y

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Marchpane

The Sparrows of Edward Street | Elizabeth Stead

November had its ups and downs, I'm actually surprised I got this much reading in. Hoping for a lot more time to read in December 🙏

Prize for #bestofnovember goes to The Sparrows of Edward Street, a hidden gem that I only picked up because of the #photoadaynov16 challenge. Another case of #blameitonlitsy !!

RealLifeReading

RealLifeReading Wow you read some good ones in Nov! Paper Girls! Elizabeth David! 7y

Reviewsbylola I read Kindred this month too. 7y

Cinfhen Nice selections 😍great month 7y

KarenUK Nice! 🙌🙌💕 7y

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Marchpane

The Sparrows of Edward Street | Elizabeth Stead

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Feisty heroine, fallen on hard times, determined to make the best of things. It's the premise for Sense & Sensibility, Cold Comfort Farm and Little Women, among others. And it's a winner, if not very original.

Aria Sparrow is an original though! Full of sass and wit, meddling in her neighbours lives and plotting to get her family out of the Sydney slum they're forced to live in after father Sparrow's death 'during the war'.

Great read! 👍👍

Marchpane The picture is because Aria makes a living modelling in ads like this, 'loving' various household products she could never afford to use herself. 7y

EnidBiteEm What an ad! 😂😡Which grown woman doesn't want a soap that makes them into the ideal of an, um, little fairy girl? Nice review 😀 7y

Marchpane Read for my #192019challenge : published 2011 7y

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Marchpane

The Sparrows of Edward Street | Elizabeth Stead

Hollie That's awesome! 7y

Loretta 😂👏🏻😂👏🏻 7y

lovelybookshelf 😂😂😂 7y

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Hooked_on_books Oh that's too good 7y

CoffeeAndABook Oh yes! 😂😂😂🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻 7y

saresmoore Bahahaha! Brilliant! 7y

Bluestocking Oh I know these guys! 😝 7y

BookBabe 😂😂😂 7y

librarypoweruser Brilliant! 7y

EnidBiteEm Life lessons there 😂 7y

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Marchpane

The Sparrows of Edward Street | Elizabeth Stead

TFW you comb your shelves looking for #headlesscovers for #photoadaynov16 challenge, find a book that you've owned for years but have never read, you skim the first 10 pages and discover that it is AWESOME ?? This is moving up the TBR with a bullet!

Quote for all the Aussies: "she felt like a crushed Sao biscuit at the bottom of a tin of assorted creams" ?

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TheLondonBookworm I do this all the time!!!! So many unread books it's embarrassing 😂 7y

EnidBiteEm 😂 Given it's the age of no sugar, Assorted Creams have always been overrated 😂 7y

Marchpane @EnidBiteEm hahaha! And in the age of low-carb and gluten-free everything, does anyone eat Saos anymore? 😁 7y

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EnidBiteEm Do they even sell them now? I must have eaten over 1,000 with marg and Vegemite in my school days ... but never the upmarket Vanilla Slice version. Sugar AND carbs 😍 7y

Lizpixie I love my saos! I lived on the things when I was pregnant, can't beat them with some kraft cheese and a slice of tomato with salt & cracked pepper. Yummy. I might go make some now.😋 7y

Marchpane @EnidBiteEm @Lizpixie for me it was Saladas and Promite. In the lunchbox Every Single Day. Mmmm, salt 😋 7y

EnidBiteEm Promite! So much better than Vegemite!, but also more sugar. I was devo when the sugar police told me 😂 @Lizpixie Do it! 7y

EnidBiteEm @Lixpixie Kraft plastic singles were my favourite, until I became intolerant to 160B. Sometimes I still eat them on the sly, but with an antihistamine 😂 All that smooth plasticky goodness 😀 7y

Lizpixie @EnidBiteEm I prefer the blue box kraft cheese. It's the only cheese I'll eat, except for Italian food. 7y

Marchpane @EnidBiteEm remember jaffles? Toasted till the crusts are rock hard and the plastic cheese filling is like molten lava. Ouch! 7y

tpixie @EnidBiteEm @Lizpixie @Marchpane I'm learning a lot of food vocabulary this am!!! 7y

JanuarieTimewalker13 @Marchpane is this specific book set somewhere in Australia? 7y

Marchpane @JanuarieTimewalker13 yes, it's set in postwar (1948) in a housing commission camp (slum) in the outskirts of Sydney. That makes it sound depressing but it's written in a humorous way. 7y

Marchpane @tpixie lol, got carried away reminiscing about the highly processed foods of our childhoods 😄 7y

JanuarieTimewalker13 @Marchpane ooooh, sounds good!! Thank you!! I can't recall any books I have read set in Australia. I'm stacking this. And looking for more🙂 7y

thegirlwiththelibrarybag @EnidBiteEm, #teamvegemite 😏 7y

tpixie 😆🍕🌭🍟🌮🍡🍧🍬🍪 7y

RealLifeReading Yay! Headless covers! 7y

Marchpane @RealLifeReading yay, thank you for the prompt that led to me cracking this book open! 7y

LeahBergen I'm having fun learning about these "exotic" foods! ? More please! @EnidBiteEm @Lizpixie 7y

EnidBiteEm @Marchpane I still have a jaffle maker. Our sandwich press blew up, so it's jaffles all the time. Glad we could be of assistance, @tpixie 😂 @LeahBergen Cheezels are another delicacy (round, bright orange chip things), but if you do ever find a box you must put one on each finger first before eating. You can only eat them ten at a time 😂 7y

EnidBiteEm @thegirlwiththelibrarybag #never #promiteismyfriend 7y

tpixie @EnidBiteEm in USA we have Bugels corn chips. Shaped in a cone. I always liked to put them on my fingers before eating- like witches fingernails ! 7y

Bette That's terrific! 👍❤️ 7y

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