Her numerous pets have long, elaborate names. In a way embraces various hardships and sad episodes that she records The bulk of theīook is a segment of one of her earliest diaries, in which Opal as aĬharming, observant little girl describes her life among the treesĪnd animals, family and neighbors. Relentlessly pushed by the press and her skeptics. The author makes a very well presented andĬonvincing case that the hoax Opal was accused of was created and Illness, spending the last 44 years of her life in a psychiatric She kept a diaryįor a number of years starting as a child and, for reasons wellĮxplained in the introduction of the book, she was eventuallyĭiscredited as a fraud and slowly descended into fantasy and mental Opal was a naturalist, teacher, writer, lecturer and travelerīorn in 1897 in Washington, who grew up in Oregon. Willows Grow, The Rediscovered Diary of Opal Whiteley by Benjamin The winter one of the books I read was The Singing Creek Where The
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