Time To Go Home by Eleanor Spence

Time To Go Home

by Eleanor Spence

Illustrated by Fermin Rocker

Oxford University Press, 1973 [First Edition], ISBN 0192713523, illustrated title page, illustrated in text, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, institute stamp to front end-paper, price-clipped protected dust-jacket with minor edge and shelf wear (see photographs)

"Rugby is the most important thing in Rowan Price's life and when he is put into the school First Fifteen, he is overjoyed.  He also agrees to coach Kippy, a young Aboriginal boy, in his spare time.  yet it is Rugby which is responsible for many of the troubles which beset Rowan in the next few months.  He makes a dangerous enemy of Colin Clifford, a fellow team-member; when the Firsts go to Barralong, he spends his first - disastrous - week-end away from home; and his sporting activities take up so much of his time that he finds it increasingly difficult to cope with the demands of schoolwork.  Something has to be sacrificed - and in putting his interest in Rugby before all other considerations, Rowan finds himself embarking on a course of action which has unfortunate consequences."