Every Common Bush eBook Patricia Rorke
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Patricia Rorke was born in Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon in Myanmar) in 1923. Hers would be the last generation of the family to be born in the East; first war and then independence would intervene and the family’s history would take up again back in the British Isles. But this book tells the story of the family from when it first touched ground on Indian soil in the 1840s, through life with the army, then settling as civilians in Burma and the many happy years spent there until the Japanese invasion forced the family to become refugees and evacuate to India, in the 1940s.
It is not a story of great events, of earth shattering decisions, but of the small things that mean so much to each of us and our families. It tells of going to school with peoples of other cultures, of trying to run a business in Rangoon (with mixed fortunes), of moving from house to house as life and fortune dictated, and of the complicated, overlapping circles of society in Burma where Patricia’s father was car mechanic, lay preacher and ran arms and supplies to the Chinese and Chiang Kai Shek as the threat of the Japanese grew.
Viewed from the sometimes anxious, fast paced and challenging heights of the 21st Century, it can be easy to forget or simply not realise how different was the society enjoyed as children by relatives still within our midst. Take that society and move it from the relative safety of our own shores to the far flung colonies of the British Empire, to a place that would take considerable time and effort to reach and where British society and culture was imported and thoroughly mixed up with that of the local, perhaps older society, and you have the basis for a story that is as glamorous and exotic in its setting as it is warm and inviting in the telling.
“I may have, I suppose, painted too rosy a picture of the past, but it is my picture; it is how I saw things. And it must be remembered that I have a great love for my characters and I have, I hope, dealt gently with them. This I owe them.” Patricia Rorke.
Every Common Bush eBook Patricia Rorke
A wonderful telling of a close knit family's life in Burma and India, written with a care for detail that brings the world of 1930's Rangoon to life. Patricia Rorke's father had a motor business which foundered in the Depression, but knew many people, Burmese, Colonial, Indian and was impartial to race, caste or class. The author goes into great detail about how life was lived in teak houses with no running water or electricity, but a number of servants, and how that leisured life gradually gave way to a poorer one in monetary terms, but never in family closeness. The fractured evacuation in 1942 of different family members and the long time it took in India to settle is interesting in that most other memoirs of the evacuation of Burma stop upon arriving in India. I read this in one go; literally could not put it down, and I rate it very highly on the long list of other evacuee books that are out there.Product details
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A wonderful telling of a close knit family's life in Burma and India, written with a care for detail that brings the world of 1930's Rangoon to life. Patricia Rorke's father had a motor business which foundered in the Depression, but knew many people, Burmese, Colonial, Indian and was impartial to race, caste or class. The author goes into great detail about how life was lived in teak houses with no running water or electricity, but a number of servants, and how that leisured life gradually gave way to a poorer one in monetary terms, but never in family closeness. The fractured evacuation in 1942 of different family members and the long time it took in India to settle is interesting in that most other memoirs of the evacuation of Burma stop upon arriving in India. I read this in one go; literally could not put it down, and I rate it very highly on the long list of other evacuee books that are out there.
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