Thursday's Child is young adult novel by the Australian writer Sonya Hartnett, published in 2000 by Penguin Books.
Set during the 1930s Great Depression in Australia, it features a young woman Harper Flute and her family, who live in poverty.
[3][4] Harper Flute is an adolescent girl living with her family in Australia during the depression.
Her dad, whom she calls Da, comes out and starts searching all over for Tin, and they eventually find him in the mud.
Back at the house, Audrey, her older sister, scolds Harper for letting him get away like that.
Later on in the book, her mother, whom she calls Mam, is pregnant and gives birth to a new baby boy named Caffy.
Harper notices how Tin loves to dig and he spends most of his time under the house.
Da fights back, but Mr. Cable asks Devon if he can work for him for a week's wages.
He notes how Mr. Cable sent him home without a penny and an hour's instruction to build the fences.
Da tries to talk to Mr. Cable, but he notes how Devon made two of his sows run away with his "lousy" fences.
Devon is not very optimistic about this, so when they come home, Mam starts arguing how Harper never got new clothes in her life.
One day, a seventeen-year-old boy named Izzy moves to their town, and Audrey begins to have a crush on him.
Harper doesn't care, she wants her Da to stop digging in his skin.
Mam tells Da to build the house while she finds a place to stay for the while.
Da soon rebuilds the house, but Harper feels that Tin is growing farther away from the family.
Audrey doesn't want to see her family suffer so she decides to tell yes to Mr. Cable to be his housekeeper.
Harper suddenly falls into one of Tin's tunnels, and she starts thinking of Caffy while crawling.
A few days later, the Flute family is given a chunk of gold that Tin finds in one of his tunnels.
They dance around, happy, and thinking that Tin was digging to find something to help his poor family all along.
She says she misses Devon, who moved to the front, and Izzy, Audrey's sweetheart, who went to war.