The Godwits Fly by Robin Hyde
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Doctor Gilbert Totthill - A Novelist
She lived on and off for four years in a building that's still there, which she referred to as gray lodge. Har sommershima and i were able to infiltrate the building and go up to the attic where doctor totthill made it possible for her to write. She could be up there alone with her typewriter, enormously prolific. That's where she wrote a huge number of books and articles. It was supporting her whole writing life. But yes, part of her work was to write a journal or a personal history for doctor Totthill. And that material, much of it, you see in godwitly. Her first novel is published in 19 36, passport
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