Families in the Digital Age

Families in the Digital Age

Massaging Himmler

Massaging Himmler

Rosa

Memories with Licence

$24.99
ISBN
9781925736113
More Information
By Ros Collins
Format Paperback / softback
Page Extent 192
Book Size 233 x 155 x 240 mm (H x W x D)
Imprint Hybrid Publishing
Release Date 22 Aug 2019
Subject Classification Memoirs
As British as Earl Grey tea, Rosa has spent most of her life in Melbourne. Her children and grandchildren are all Australian-born, as was Alan, her writer husband. But Rosa is hesitant about an unconditional commitment to Vegemite, mateship and the ANZAC legend; she remains a perennial migrant, often amused by her memories, here presented with a deliberate overlay of lies and licence.

Her family’s history is nearer to Dickens than the shtetls of Eastern Europe; Rosa herself recalls Dunkirk and the Blitz. Beyond the conservatism of 1950s London that she escaped, Rosa flings open the windows and doors to invite the reader into her Anglo-Australian-Jewish family. She refrains from delving into deep psychological examinations of what it means to be an only child, an only grandchild, a reluctant Jewish teenager, and muse to a man whose terrible childhood scarred him for life; the ‘clues’ are all there for the curious reader to discover.