Caddie with an introduction by Dymphna Cusack (Australian Classics)

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly at spine. Dust jacket has light creasing at edges and at spine. Some light scratches to back cover near spine top. Previous owner has signed inside page. A few foxing marks on title page. Interior and binding are still very good.

Caddie is the true story of a sensitive, attractive girl left to fend for herself and her two young children. Her desperate efforts to survive and earn an existence in the hard times of the 1920s and 1930s led her to many jobs and situations.

Working as a barmaid in several pubs, she sees the Sydney scene on all levels: the seamy underworld, middle-class respectability and pseudo-gentility.

Caddie is a battler, a girl with honest, plain guts and despite her troubles, she never goes under. Initially published in 1953.(Trove)