One leg over : having fun - mostly - in peace and war / Robin Dalton.
Publication details: Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing Company, 2017.Description: 197 pages : portraits ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781925355949
- 306.7092
- 920.72 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Biography | 306.709 DAL | Available | 065958 |
At the age of ninety-five, Sydney local celebrity Robin Dalton looks back on her life, particularly on her love life.
At the age of ninety-five, Robin Dalton looks back on her life, particularly on her love life. Married at nineteen, disastrously, Robin has a lucky escape-her 'Society Divorce' makes the front page of Sydney newspapers, bumping the war to page three. Then there are the American and British servicemen in Sydney-the dancing, the many trysts and a number of not-too-serious engagements-before Robin travels to England ostensibly to marry one of those fiances. While most of Europe struggles with post-war austerity, Robin's days and nights are filled with extravagant dinners, parties with royalty and romantic getaways, until she meets the man who will become, for a brief few years before his early death, her second husband. One Leg Over is a story of love and romance, of fun and glamour, and of loss and great sadness. But above all it's a celebration of a wonderful life.