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One leg over : having fun - mostly - in peace and war / Robin Dalton.

By: Publication details: Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing Company, 2017.Description: 197 pages : portraits ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781925355949
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.7092
  • 920.72 23
Summary: 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.
List(s) this item appears in: Australian Biography
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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.

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