Waiting for Childhood
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| Author | Sumner Locke Elliott |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | orphans |
| Set in | Australia |
| Publisher | Harper and Row |
Publication date | 1987 |
| Publication place | USA |
Waiting for Childhood is a 1987 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott. It is based on his mother's family and set in Australia.[1][2]
Publishers Weekly called it "an engrossing, extraordinarily well-crafted novel."[3]
The Los Angeles Times said the novel "manages at once to be terribly melancholy and extraodinarily exciting."[4]
