Longtime Passing
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| Author | H. F. Brinsmead |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's fiction |
| Publisher | Angus and Robertson |
Publication date | 1971 |
| Publication place | Australia |
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| Pages | 183 pp |
| ISBN | 0207122768 |
| Preceded by | - |
| Followed by | Once There Was a Swagman |
Longtime Passing (1971) is a novel for children by Australian author H. F. Brinsmead.[1] It won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers in 1972.[2]
This novel was the first in the author's Longtime Books series.[3]
Edwin Truelance has built a house for his family in the Blue Mountains area of New South Wales, and called it "Longtime". In a series of anecdotes and episodes Teddy, the youngest child of the family, tells the story of how the house came to be built in a region of rainforest and bushland.