Aunts Up the Cross
$16.88
- Paperback
142 pages
- Release Date
18 November 2015
Summary
My great Aunt Juliet was knocked over and killed by a bus when she was eighty-five. The bus was travelling very slowly in the right direction and could hardly have been missed by anyone except Aunt Juliet, who must have been travelling fairly fast in the wrong direction.
Growing up in the 1930s in a grand old home in Sydney’s bohemian Kings Cross, Robin Dalton experienced a childhood of curiosity and wonder. Raised by a bevy of idiosyncratic aunts and a revolving door of unco…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781925240641 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1925240649 |
| Author: | Robin Dalton, Clive James |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 142 |
| Release Date: | 18 November 2015 |
| Weight: | 150g |
| Dimensions: | 19mm x 199mm x 130mm |
| Series: | Text Classics |
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Critics Review
‘Hysterically funny.’
‘Hysterically funny.’ * Jennifer Byrne *
‘A hugely energetic gallop, nicely complemented by Dinah Dryhurst’s spikey, spirited illustrations…[Dalton] lived a technicolour, quite glorious life, which you’ll enjoy being diverted by.’ * New Zealand Herald *
‘A quirky and hilarious childhood memoir. I haven’t laughed so much in years.’ – Tim Flannery * The Books We Loved 2016, Sydney Morning Herald *
About The Author
Robin Dalton
Robin Dalton was born in Sydney, and lived in London from 1946. She was a television performer, an intelligence agent, a literary agent and a film producer (Madame Souzatska starring Shirley Maclaine; Oscar and Lucinda starring Cate Blanchett), as well as an author. Her 1965 account of her childhood in Kings Cross, Aunts up the Cross remains an Australian classic. The previously unpublished My Relations was released in 2015. She died in 2022 at the age of 101.
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