Aunts Up the Cross

Name: Aunts Up the Cross
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781925240641
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By Robin Dalton

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Aunts Up the Cross by Robin Dalton is a charming memoir that paints a vivid picture of the author's eccentric upbringing in Sydney, Australia during the 1930s. Through a series of lively anecdotes, it explores the antics and peculiarities of her colourful family members, set against the backdrop of bohemian society. Each page is infused with humour and nostalgia, offering a delightful glimpse into a whimsical world.
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You might enjoy this book if you love humorous and heartwarming tales about eccentric families and vibrant communities. The memoir offers a delightful glimpse into an unconventional Australian upbringing filled with quirky characters that bring laughter and nostalgia to readers who appreciate lively anecdotes and rich storytelling.

Aunts Up the Cross

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Fifty years after its original publication, Aunts Up the Cross remains a perennial classic of Australian childhood. 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. Steeped in nostalgia, this is a delightfully funny memoir of family, childhood, and the Australia of yesteryear.

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Aunts Up the Cross by Robin Dalton is praised for its humour and energetic storytelling, with illustrations that enhance its spirited narrative. Reviewers find it a hilarious and quirky memoir, appreciating its ability to provide laughter and an enjoyable glimpse into Dalton’s colourful life.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781925240641

Publisher: Text Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 18 November 2015

Country: Australia

Imprint: The Text Publishing Company

Contributors:

Introduction by Clive James

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 157g

Pages: 142

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About the Author

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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