An Imperial Affair: Portrait of an Australian Marriage by John Rickard

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Small mark on tail foredge.Interior and binding are still excellent.

An Imperial Affair takes us into the marriage of an Australian couple during a time when private lives were properly private, and when divorce was a scandal. The book shines a light on the family values and sexual dynamics of this period, conditioned as they were by the imperial relationship and cultural dependence on 'the mother country,' which inevitably helped shape hopes, fear, and desires. This is also a beautifully told story of the author's sensitive and courageous quest to understand his parents, Philip and Pearl, and the world he came from.

Part biography, part autobiography, part social history, An Imperial Affair is also a complex, quintessentially Australian meditation on the nature of love.