Robin Dalton (1920–2022)

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 laughing out loud suddenly and often. I'd give my last two bob to live in a household of such loveable, irritating individuals. Robin's father was the runaway favourite character for me in spite of it being about The Aunts! Didn't want it to end....

The author's story of life growing up as part of a large , reasonably well off, eccentric family in Kings Cross in Sydney around the 1930s.
I found the story jumped around a fair bit and with so many personalities introduced in such a short space of time ( the book is only 103 pages) I felt there was still more to be told.
Still it does stir a longing for a time when we lived without constantly fearing something and children explored their world, which is even more obvious now in 2008 than show more when the book was written in 1965 show less