SOLLY'S GIRL - Tecno-Libro

in her introduction, Ros writes that she wants to entertain the reader. she has done a great deal more than that in this highly original, intricately woven memoir. Eschewing the easier chronological approach, Ros has created a colourful tapestry of stories from her own life in England and from her family and professional life in Melbourne, intertwined with research on ancestors both noteworthy and not-so worthy and completed with insightful writing on the career of her husband of more than fifty years, the well-known Australian Jewish author, Alan Collins. in London the boring fifties were coming to an end when Ros met her Aussie, Alan. she was soon to accompany him to Melbourne as a Ten Pound Pom . Box Hill, nowhere near the Jewish ghetto , was where they could afford a home in which to raise their growing family of three boys. Life in the bush offered challenges to their Jewishness but also gave them a singular freedom. While work in advertisi