http://www.maitlandmercury.com.au/competition.aspx?id=368Our Houseless Home Giveaway
Commences: 02 November, 2010
Entries Close: 16 November, 2010
Lyle Courtney, the youngest of eight siblings, was born into a comparitively well-off family in Maryborough, a Victorian goldfields town, during the Great Depression. His mother died three weeks after he was born, and when Lyle was five years old, the family lost their house. His father thre convention to the wind and retreated with the children and their aunt to a tent camp in the bush.
Set against an ever-changing background of the beauty, wonders and vagaries of nature, Our Houseless Home is a warts and all narrative.
The Mercury has two copies to giveaway. To be in the running, fillin in the coupon in Tuesday's Mercury and send it in. Entries close at noon on Tuesday, November 16.
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