Other editions of book Mum's Place

Collins, St. James's Place, London [Published date: 1974]. Hard cover,128 pp. First Edition. [from front jacket flap] When eight year old Kim's mother dies, he is left alone in the world. Harry, a horse breaker who once wanted to marry Kim's mother, decides to take care of Kim. Together they attempt to raise enough money to buy the house in which Kim and his mother lived â?? Mum's Place. This is a fast-moving story that explores sympathetically, the emotional struggle between man and boy in a run-down Australian community. Harry is afraid of his new responsibilities, Kim of his dependence on Harry. As well as the human world, Reginald Ottley vividly portrays the world of horses and the relationship of his characters to them. It is a rough, tough world, but one in which competition, jealousies and dangers exist side by side with kindness and understanding.