One Leg Over

‘It’s not every day a memoir is written by a nonagenarian (Robin Dalton is 96) but, on reflection, it makes sense that a long life, lived to the hilt, will make for far more interesting reading than the reflections of a precocious younger person, whose trials and tribulations have only just begun, so to speak…Dalton enjoys, I suspect, shocking the reader with her tales of romance, sexual encounters, several engagements and marriage…However, the content of One Leg Over should not be dismissed as fatuous and we are rewarded with a fascinating view of the upper classes in post-war England.’ * Age *
‘From a whirlwind of romantic liaisons in her teens to a divorce that truly scandalised Sydney and ended with her in the arms of David, Prince Philip’s best friend, One Leg Over is a story of Robin’s most wonderful memories of a life so rich in experience.’ * Yours Magazine *
‘The journalist, author, intelligence agent, literary agent and film producer could never be accused of turning away from life. Her ­memoir, One Leg Over, is a slice of social history masquerading as a romp that tells us as much about 20th-century shifts in gender as any academic text.’ * Australian *

Robin Dalton was born Robin Eakin in Sydney in 1920, and has lived in London since 1946. She has been 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. Both Aunts Up the Cross and Dalton’s previously unpublished childhood account of her family, My Relations, were published by Text Publishing in 2015.

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