One Leg Over: Having Fun - Mostly - In Peace and War by Robin Dalton

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Previous owners have signed and added ownership sticker to title page.

At 95, Robin Dalton (1920-2022) looked back on her life, particularly her love life. Married at nineteen, disastrously, Robin has a lucky escape; her 'society divorce' makes the front page of Sydney newspapers, bumping the war to page three. Then there are the American and British servicemen in Sydney with the dancing, the many trysts, and a number of not-too-serious engagements before Robin travels to England ostensibly to marry one of those fiances.

While most of Europe struggles with post-war austerity, Robin's days and nights are filled with extravagant dinners, parties with royalty and romantic getaways, until she meets the man who will become her second husband for a brief few years before his early death.

One Leg Over is a story of love and romance, fun and glamour, loss and great sadness, but above all, it's a celebration of a wonderful life. Robin Dalton was born Robin Eakin in Sydney in 1920 and has lived in London since 1946. She has been a television performer, intelligence agent, literary agent, film producer, and author. Her 1965 account of her childhood in Kings Cross, Aunts Up the Cross, remains an Australian classic.