Sadly, after 110 years in business, Carthews closed in 1988, but I still have my (now dilapidated) copy of Katherine – with notable foresight I recorded the date of purchase as. Much later I discovered that these were pen-names for Eleanor Hibbert who wrote some 200 novels under various pseudonyms and could churn out 5000 words before lunch! Other favourite authors were Daphne du Maurier, Mary Stewart, and Norah Lofts but my all-time favourite was Katherine by Anya Seton first published in 1954. Photo credit: Feilding Library PHOTO_FDG_BUS_sh31.jpgĪs a teenager, I devoured those gothic historical romances by Victoria Holt and royal intrigues by Jean Plaidy. My daily ritual was to walk up Kimbolton Road to the Post Office and collect the mail, then browse the books at Carthew’s Booksellers. There was no need to hoard pocket money as I could usually wheedle an ice-cream from the stock Grandad sold in the motel office. An ice-cream in a cone was only 3 cents, and if you saved the change then every third day you could spend 5 cents on a comic and get a FruJu ice-block for 4 cents.ĭuring the winter school holidays, I would often stay with my grandparents who owned the Feilding Motels. There was the daily walk to The Store with five cents of spending money each.
There was no television and my Dad would return to the farm during the day, but we spent idyllic days swimming, messing about in the dinghy and reading.
For three weeks of the summer, my parents rented a beach house at Taurikura.
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