| Author | Sumner Locke Elliott |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | orphans |
| Set in | Australia |
| Publisher | Harper and Row |
| Publication date | 1987 |
| Publication place | USA |
Waiting for Childhood is a 1987 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott. It is based on his mother's family and set in Australia.
Publisher's Weekly called it "an engrossing, extraordinarily well-crafted novel."
The Los Angeles Times said the novel "manages at once to be terribly melancholy and extraodinarily exciting."
References
- Jill Roe, 'Elliott, Sumner Locke (1917–1991)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/elliott-sumner-locke-14903/text26094, published online 2014, accessed online 7 October 2024.
- "Careful he remembers". The Sydney Morning Herald Guide. 27 February 1989. p. 2s.
- Review of novel at Publishers Weekly
- "Book review". The Los Angeles Times. 7 September 1987. p. 4 Part 4.