Ebook {Epub PDF} Aunts Up the Cross by Robin Dalton

 · The cover of Aunts Up The Cross. Robin Dalton's memoir is 50 years old; Clive James' fond, flashy foreword is 20 years old. Don't let either of these facts deter you. Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins.  · Growing up in the s 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. With 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, Aunts Up the Cross is a delightfully funny memoir of family, childhood and an Australia of yesteryear. Robin Dalton was born in Sydney, and has lived in London since /5(2).

Robin Ann Eakin was born in in Sydney, an only child, and grew up in Kings Cross, New South Wales. Her father was a doctor whose clientele included elements of the Sydney underworld as well as more respectable members of society. She was frequently in the social pages of Sydney newspapers in her late teens. Aunts Up the Cross by Robin Dalton read like historical fiction (being set in Kings Cross, Sydney between the wars) but it was in fact a memoir. Perhaps because Dalton wrote the book in the 's, and was therefore looking back on her life from a bit of a distance, there were romantic, nostalgic, story-like elements to it. Steeped in nostalgia, Aunts Up the Cross is a delightfully funny memoir of family, childhood and an Australia of yesteryear. Robin Dalton was born in Sydney, and has lived in London since She has been a television performer, an intelligence agent, a literary agent and a film producer (Madame Souzatska starring Shirley Maclaine; Oscar and.

“My 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.” ― Robin Dalton, Aunts Up the Cross. Aunts Up The Cross more than lived up to it's famous opening paragraph! Eccentric, funny, honest and a down to earth gem, it had me smiling most of the time, shaking my head occasionally, and. Aunts Up the Cross. I had heard of Robin Dalton’s memoir Aunts Up the Cross but had somehow never got around to reading it, even though I live a short walk from Kings Cross. Thanks to a loan from a friend, I have now rectified that lack. It was a delightful book, full of charm, but was also packed with interesting Sydney history.