My Relations: By Robin Ann Eakin, Aged 8, 1929
By (Author) Robin Dalton
Text Publishing
The Text Publishing Company
18th November 2015
UK ed.
Australia
General
Fiction
828.91408
60
Width 118mm, Height 189mm
172g
In 1929 an eight-year-old child, who had very few relations, imagined an assortment of eccentric aunts, uncles and cousins. She wrote and illustrated a little book about them, which her grandmother kept. Now, nearly 90 years later, this whimsical and oddly touching collection from an iconic Australian author sees the light of day. Complete with original illustrations and some fascimile pages, Robin Dalton's My Relations is a perfect gift for your own.
Robin Dalton was born in Sydney, and lived in London from 1946. She was a television performer, an intelligence agent, a literary agent and a film producer (Madame Souzatska starring Shirley Maclaine; Oscar and Lucinda starring Cate Blanchett), as well as an author. Her 1965 account of her childhood in Kings Cross, Aunts up the Cross remains an Australian classic. The previously unpublished My Relations was released in 2015. She died in 2022 at the age of 101.