Joan London
👤 Speaker
7
total appearances
Appearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
The Bookshelf
Summer Bookshelf celebrating Australian writing
Frank Gold is a 13-year-old boy who has caught polio.
The Bookshelf
Summer Bookshelf celebrating Australian writing
He's an immigrant boy.
The Bookshelf
Summer Bookshelf celebrating Australian writing
He's come with his parents from Hungary.
The Bookshelf
Summer Bookshelf celebrating Australian writing
He's Jewish and he is making his way into this new culture and then he's blighted with polio.
The Bookshelf
Summer Bookshelf celebrating Australian writing
In his resilient way, perhaps, you know, as a refugee, he makes the best of the situation and quickly he's learnt, and he does this in the Golden Age convalescent home, to make friends with the cook and get to know all the people he should know.
The Bookshelf
Summer Bookshelf celebrating Australian writing
And he falls in love with a fellow patient called Elsa.