'The family and friends of Sylvia Cust, and a wider circle as well, will be immensely grateful that at eighty-one, she has drawn together these vivid recollections of her remarkable and adventurous life ...
'The range of her friendships, with their varied settings, is truly astonishing. She wins the trust of her hostess in the dingy poverty of London' s East End in the thirties, stays at Holyrood Palace with a Scottish marchioness, shares the bed of a miner' s wife in wintry Nova Scotia, brings help and hope to the Rani of Kutch in a fairy-tale setting in North-West India, is the guest of Queen Salote of Tonga in company with her Aboriginal friend, Margaret Tucker. Through this wealth of experience in many different countries runs an unbroken thread of loyalty and gratitude for her family in Australia, in particular her generous father, who gave her unstinting support until his death ...
'This essentially personal story has indeed a global relevance.' Michael Thwaites, Australian poet and author.
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