A Smile For My Parents

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'My hope is that I have brought my parents to life as real people - not just names on the pages of newspapers or history books - and that you will be able to see for yourselves how right Sir Walter Crocker was when he said to me, "You are one of fortune's most favoured children."'

Heather Henderson is the only daughter of Sir Robert Menzies, Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and founder of the Liberal party. She decided to write this book after years of urging by family, friends, public figures and even complete strangers - all of whom had been entranced by Heather's stories of her parents. Her recollections are filled with warmth, love and humour, and allow us to see a completely different side of a man and Prime Minister assumed by many to be rather stern and forbidding.

A Smile for My Parents is an engaging memoir that offers a rare and surprising glimpse into the lives of Dame Pattie and Sir Robert Menzies and their family and friends, one that will charm and delight all who read it.

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Heather Henderson was born in Melbourne and moved to Canberra in 1951 after her father Robert Menzies became Prime Minister. In 1955 she married Peter Henderson, whose work as a Foreign Service Officer took their family to posts in Djakarta, Geneva, London and Manila before he became Secretary of the Department from 1979 to 1984. The Hendersons have four daughters, eleven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. They live in Canberra.