Ada : comedian, dancer, fighter / Kaz Cooke.
Publication details: Melbourne, Victoria : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2017.Description: 261 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780670077939 :
- A823.4 23
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction - Historical | COO | Available | 067170 |
National Library of Australia's N copy inscribed by the author. ANL
Includes bibliographical references.
'It's not every day a handsome young man appears on your doorstep to ask if you're a respectable womana' Miss Ada Delroy and her famous vaudeville troupe stormed five continents, enchanting royalty, miners and larrikins alike with her wit, illusions, and breathtaking dances. 'I had a diamond pendant near as big as an emu egg off the Maharajah of What's-His-Name. They named a racehorse after me, and a pigeon and a potato soup on an Orient steamship.' Under the costume made from 100 yards of billowing silk was a woman who couldn't help being both fabulous and disreputable. Down on her luck in a rented room in Melbourne, morphia cocktail in hand, Ada receives a visitor. Is she ready to share her secrets?
