BONFIRES IN THE RAIN.

Wellington, New Zealand: Bridget Williams, 1991. 241 pp, 8vo (8 1/2" H). B&w photographs. The second volume of New Zealand poet Lauris Edmond's autobiography. "For Lauris Edmond this was married life in its time of greatest fulfilment, with six children in a small New Zealand country town in the fifties. They were rich years, full of laughter and friendship and solidity - the way, she supposed, women's lives were meant to be. But dreams and expectations change, the experiences of loss and uncertainty impinge, and as the sixties became the seventies the world shifted on its axis. Women everywhere were questioning the old, familiar loyalties; for Lauris there was no ignoring the promptings of a talent - and a way of being - too long supressed. (A) remarkable account of a woman's journey from conformity to a tentative and painful independence; of the growth and death of a marriage, and the questioning and discovery of self. Eloquent and assured, this is autobiography at its most revealing, and confirms Lauris Edmonds as an outstanding prose writer." Interior - light wrinkling to fore edge of first 60 pages, slight waviness to top of approx. pages 170 - 225, previous owner's name on inside of front cover, otherwise clean and tight with no other ownership marks. Exterior - minor edgewear, two soft creases on front cover, book very slightly cocked, spine uncreased.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good-.