The publisher did scant service to the author by putting a ‘blurb’ before the book, emphasising ideas that are neither implicit nor explicit in it. Betty Roland does not claim to be a prophet.
The old cliché ‘I couldn’t put it down’ was literally true when I read her Caviar for Breakfast, the account of her year in the Soviet Union in 1934.
We all do silly things when we are young!
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Dymphna Cusack
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Dymphna Cusack (1902–1981) was an Australian writer and playwright whose novels and plays have been translated in thirty-four countries. With Miles Franklin, she co-wrote Pioneers on Parade (1939) and with Florence James, Come In Spinner (1951), which was later turned into a television series by the ABC. A passionate advocate for social reform, Cusack was a member of the Communist Party and a founding member of the Australia Society of Authors.