The 1950s.

Boring?

Hardly. An influx of European refugees, stirrings of feminism, and the threat of a third world war were remaking Australia. As the Cold War chilled, inside a Melbourne house a young girl was caught in the crossfire of domestic conflict amid the clashing political and social values of her autocratic grandmother, her self-denying mother, and her glamorous aunt: three women who presented very different models of womanhood.

Reviews:

• Charming and perceptive memoir of a Melbourne girlhood in the 1950s and the constraints on women’s lives.
  ~Judith Brett, author, Doing Politics: Writing on Public Life
• Set in the Cold War years, this account of complex family relationships in Melbourne makes compelling reading.
  ~ Jennifer Radden, author, Melancholic Habits: Burton's Anatomy And The Mind Sciences

Wakefield Press, Australia, September 4, 2024
https://www.wakefieldpress.com.au
Trade Paperback ISBN 978-1-9230-4343-8
Digital ISBN 978-1-9230-4243-2

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