Twentieth anniversary edition of Farrants beloved memoir of coming of age with an absent mother in a vanished timeThe setting is Vancouver Island the year 1960 It is the era of the Three Stooges and the Red Menace the apex of plastic Arborite and everything turquoise high heels pedal pushers refrigerators even cars Throughout her childhood Marion Farrant heard wild family stories of the sophisticated life her mother Nancy led far away in Australia Nancys world of riches and men seemed light years away from Cordova Bay on Vancouver Island where Marion lived a workingclass life with her aunt and uncle But things changed the year she entered her teens That year Nancy threw everyone into a flurry with the surprise announcement that she was coming for a visit This new edition of Farrants beloved memoir of her fourteenth summer capturing a lost time and place with love and hilarity includes five companion stories an introduction by Lynne Van Luven and a preface by the author Witty tender and wry My Turquoise Years is a book for anyone who remembers being a teenager
