#AWW 2019: Robin Dalton

• Author:  Robin Dalton (1920)
• Title: Aunts Up the Cross
• Published: 1965
• Genre: memoir
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Introduction:

1. Aunts up the Cross is about Daltons’s childhood with her
2. …eccentric extended family in Sydney’s Kings Cross.
3. Her father was an open-all-hours doctor, known affectionately as “the gun doc”.
4. Dr Eakin,  Mrs. Eakin,  Nana….and the close relationship the author had
5. …with Aunt Bertie and  Aunt Juliet.
6. Robin Dalton  is now 99…and still going strong!
7. I loved this quote I found…
8. Being old is not a problem, and the future not really a consideration:
9. “I haven’t got a future, I’m practically tottering off the edge …”

Conclusion:

1. I haven’t laughed so much about a book in years!
2. This is an absolute gem!
3. Tears of laughter while reading the theatrics the Eakin’s supper table.
4. Tony ‘the bookmaker’ McGill is seated next to Mrs. Eakin’s aged governess Sally.
5. Suddenly Tony unabashedly makes Sally ‘an offer she can’t refuse’! (…read the book!)
6. Robin Dalton’s father was a tease
7. .….and the book if filled with his practical jokes!
8. But nothing, no nothing can compare to
9. …the laughter I enjoyed while reading
10. ..how Mrs. Eakin killed the plumber and
11. ..the best joke about a fish  I have heard in YEARS!
12. All can be found in …chapter 3…and much more!
    
13. No spoilers….just a enthusiastic recommendation
14. Aunts Up the Cross!
15. Light, funny memoir…perfect book
16. to lazily sit in the garden with a G&T…and laugh!
17. You can read it in a few hours, just 142 pages!
18. #Hysterical!