{"product_id":"waiting-for-the-sugar-water-by-shirley-grave","title":"Waiting For The Sugar-Water by Shirley Grave","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her autobiography To the Is-land, Janet Frame wrote of Shirley Grave: Her name was Shirley Grave, and I first became aware of her through the teachers' complaints about her lack of order, her absentmindedness, which were apparently balanced by her imagination. 'Shirley has imagination. She writes poetry.' 'What a dreamer you are, Shirley! Always lost in your poetic world of imagination!' I looked with interest and envy at the girl who had the poetic attributes I longed for. I wanted to be a poet, and I knew that poets must be imaginative or poetic, dream great dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWaiting For The Sugar-water is Shirley Grave's major work of imagination... an autobiography set in New Zealand's South Island that recalls a childhood as one of the \"bovine herd\" in Primer One, to the evening of her life watching the tuis and the bellbirds waiting for their sugar-water.\u003cbr\u003eShirley Grave was born in Oamaru in 1924, the daughter of well-known explorer and solicitor W.G. Grave. Educated at Waitaki Girls' High School and Timaru Girls' High School, she has written poetry since childhood. Waiting For The Sugar-water is her first book.\u003cbr\u003eShirley Grave lives beside the Waianakarua River, South of Oamaru. Her house overlooks the old dam, the only remaining part of the flour mill established in the 1960's by her Grandfather James.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42291703644234,"sku":"5086u","price":9.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/5086u_8ce1ed3e-c7c6-45dc-82b9-5af29b3474ad.jpg?v=1765311395","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/waiting-for-the-sugar-water-by-shirley-grave","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}