{"product_id":"9781922253378","title":"Aunts Up the Cross","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGrowing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith 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, \u003ci\u003eAunts Up the Cross\u003c\/i\u003e is a delightfully funny memoir of family, childhood and an Australia of yesteryear. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Dalton\u003c\/b\u003e 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 (\u003ci\u003eMadame Souzatska\u003c\/i\u003e starring Shirley Maclaine; \u003ci\u003eOscar and Lucinda\u003c\/i\u003e starring Cate Blanchett), as well as an author. Her 1965 account of her childhood in Kings Cross, \u003ci\u003eAunts up the Cross \u003c\/i\u003eremains an Australian classic. The previously unpublished \u003ci\u003eMy Relations \u003c\/i\u003ewill be released in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘Hysterically funny.’ Jennifer Byrne\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘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.’ \u003ci\u003eNew Zealand Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A quirky and hilarious childhood memoir. I haven’t laughed so much in years.’ Tim Flannery, The Books We Loved 2016, \u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154167972080,"sku":"9781922253378","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781922253378_p0.jpg?v=1763634055","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781922253378","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}