Oracles and Miracles

by Steven Eldred-Grigg. 

The story of two sisters, Ginnie and Fag, born into a poor, working class family in Christchurch before WWII.  It was a city of 'peeling paint, flaking iron, cracked linoleum, dusty yards, lean-tos, and asphalts, dunnies and textile mills'. 

Penguin Classics edition. In very good condition.