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OverviewMy 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 unconventional houseguests, Dalton recalls a time when children had real adventures in a world not easy but perhaps less complicated than today’s. With a gentle warmth and wicked wit, Robin Dalton brings to life all the colour, glamour and charm of Australian society between the wars. Steeped in nostalgia, Aunts Up the Cross is a delightfully funny memoir of family, childhood and an Australia of yesteryear. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Robin Dalton , Clive JamesPublisher: Text Publishing Imprint: The Text Publishing Company Edition: UK ed. Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 19.70cm Weight: 0.157kg ISBN: 9781925240641ISBN 10: 1925240649 Pages: 142 Publication Date: 18 November 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviews'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 * 'Hysterically funny.' Jennifer Byrne '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 Author InformationRobin 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |