Longtime Passing
{{Short description|1971 novel by H. F. Brimsmead}}
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| author = H. F. Brinsmead
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| country = Australia
| language = English
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| genre = Children's fiction
| publisher = Angus and Robertson
| release_date = 1971
| media_type = Print
| pages = 183 pp
| isbn = 0207122768
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| followed_by = Once There Was a Swagman
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Longtime Passing (1971) is a novel for children by Australian author H. F. Brinsmead.{{cite web |title=Longtime Passing by H. F. Brinsmead |url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1806404 |access-date=9 December 2024 |publisher=National Library of Australia}} It won the Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers in 1972.{{cite web|title="Children's Book Week" |work= Canberra Times|date= 8 July 1972|publisher= Canberra Times, 8 July 1972, p13|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article101993472|access-date= 9 December 2024}}
This novel was the first in the author's Longtime Books series.{{cite web |title=Longtime Books by H. F. Brinsmead |url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C431060 |access-date=9 December 2024 |publisher=Austlit}}
Plot outline
Edwin Truelance has built a house for his family in the Blue Mountains area of New South Wales, and called it "Longtime". In a series of anecdotes and episodes Teddy, the youngest child of the family, tells the story of how the house came to be built in a region of rainforest and bushland.
Critical reception
In their report on the Children's Book of the Year Award for Older Readers the award's judges called the book "a warm-hearted novel for teenage girls." They went on to note that the author had based the book on her own life experience and that "it has the ring of authenticity and the author had invested her characters with a sharply defined reality."
Writing about Brinsmead's books for children, Walter McVitty noted that this "is a book written with economy, wisdom and humour, beautifully shaped into an artistic unity by being placed in the context of the original Daruk Aboriginal inhabitants and their legends."Innocence & Experience: Essays on Contemporary Australian Children's Writers by Walter McVitty, Nelson, 1981, p157
See also
References
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Category:Australian children's novels
Category:1971 Australian novels
Category:CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award–winning works
Category:1971 children's books