During this time, fame as a writer finally knocked on her door. "Onions in the Stew" describes Betty MacDonald's years on beautiful Vashon Island in Puget Sound in happy times with her second husband and two daughters. A delightful old -fashioned Christmas story about two sisters, Nancy, 10 and Plum, 8. It is a story Betty told her daughters, Joan and Anne, each night at bedtime, making it up as she went along. "Nancy and Plum" is a children's book that Betty MacDonald first published in 1952. "The Egg and I" is Betty MacDonald's first autobiographical best seller.This hilarious and heartwarming classic is about working a chicken farm on the Olympic Peninsula in the State of Washington in the late 1920's. One hilarious situation after another with Betty trying to earn a living in a country without any jobs. During the depression she went back to live with her mother leaving a failed chicken farm and a dead marriage behind her. "Anybody Can Do Anything" takes up Betty MacDonald's story before her bout with tuberculosis in "The Plague and I".
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