Aunts Up The Cross: Text Classics

Author: Robin Dalton

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  • : $14.95 AUD
  • : 9781925240641
  • : The Text Publishing Company
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  • : November 2015
  • : 198mm X 128mm
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  • : December 2015
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  • : English
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Description

50 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.

Promotion info

* Extract from Clive James' introduction to be placed in a major Australian publication * Feature reviews in Sydney Morning Herald, West Australian, Courier Mail, Adelaide Advertiser * Wide online review coverage on sites such as Sydney Review of Books and the Monthly * Advertisements in literary and current affairs publications such as ABR, The Monthly, Limelight (ABC), The Big Issue, and on their associated websites * Promotions and giveaways with targeted subscriber groups, including exclusive women's club such as The Lyceum * Promotions through Text's education newsletter, including the chance to win a class set * Advertisements in bookseller newsletters and catalogues * Featured in Text newsletters and website * Budget for bookseller catalogues

Reviews

'Hysterically funny.' Jennifer Byrne

Author description

Robin Dalton was born in Sydney, 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. The previously unpublished My Relations will be released in 2015.