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When mother killed the plumber — and Nellie Melba came round to sing

Robin Dalton’s memoir — and a juvenile novel worthy of Daisy Ashford — make for hilarious reading of bohemian life in 1940s Sydney

4 June 2016

9:00 AM

4 June 2016

9:00 AM

Aunts Up the Cross Robin Dalton

Text Classics, pp.126, £8.99, ISBN: 9781925240641

My Relations (by Robin Ann Eakin) Robin Dalton

Text Classics, pp.55, £7.99, ISBN: 9781925240573

Here’s a pair of little books — one even littler than the other — by Robin Dalton (née Eakin), a celebrated Australian literary agent and film producer, now aged 92, who has lived in London for the past 70 years.

As she explains in a prefatory note, Aunts Up the Cross was written as ‘a diary for my children should I, too, die young’, her husband having died at 33.

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