| Author | Sumner Locke Elliott |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Subject | orphans |
| Set in | Australia |
| Publisher | Harper and Row |
Publication date | 1987 |
| Publication place | USA |
Waiting for Childhood is a 1987 novel by Sumner Locke Elliott. It is based on his mother's family and set in Australia. [1] [2]
Publishers Weekly called it "an engrossing, extraordinarily well-crafted novel." [3]
The Los Angeles Times said the novel "manages at once to be terribly melancholy and extraodinarily exciting." [4]