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Rumble Seat is an evocative, poetically-written memoir of artist Helen Piddingtons childhood in the Victoria suburb of Esquimaltand what a childhood it was! The Piddingtons arrived from Quebec in 1924, and settled into a life that in many ways typified well-off Victoria families of the period. Helens father, Major Arthur Grosvenor Piddington, was a bit of an eccentric whose preferred attire, after his British army blazer, was jodhpurs and riding coat or drill shorts with knee socks held up by brightlycoloured garters. He dabbled in gentlemanly pursuits such as

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Book category Books in English Biography & True Stories Memoirs

• Full title: Rumble Seat
• Subtitle: A Victorian Childhood Remembered
• Author: Helen Piddington
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 320
• EAN: 9781550175066
• ISBN: 9781550175066
• ID: 06451512
• Publisher: Harbour Publishing
• Weight: 650 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 162 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. October 2010

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