Aunts Up the Cross

Heinemann, Australia, 1980. Hardcover in Dustjacket. Near Fine. 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 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.Note: The sequel ""Incidental Memoir, An"" is also available.Dalton, Robin, 1920- -- Childhood and youth.  |  Literary agents -- New South Wales -- Sydney -- Biography.  |  Kings Cross (N.S.W.) -- Social life and customs.  |  Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social life and customs.  |  Kings Cross (N.S.W.) -- Biography. #0521xvii, 172 p. : ill., geneal. table, ports. ; 23 cm. Elizabeth's Bookshops have been one of Australia's premier independent book dealers since 1973. Elizabeth's family-owned business operates four branches in Perth CBD, Fremantle (WA), and Newtown (NSW). All orders are dispatched within 24 hours from our Fremantle Warehouse. All items can be viewed at Elizabeth's Bookshop Warehouse, 23 Queen Victoria Street\, Fremantle WA. Hardcover in Dustjacket Near Fine