Quadrant, April 1st, 2006
SIR: My gratitude to Fred Blanks for his favourable review of Likely Lads and Lasses (March 2006). His suggestion for a fourth book (I had to look up tetralogy) about war brides is welcome, but a little late. And there's a story attached. In 1999 Val Lakeman, secretary of the Australian War Brides Association, invited members to write their personal stories, which the association would put together and publish, as received, for distribution among relatives and supporters. The "girls" (they're always that) did as they were bid, and a modest (in literary terms) but highly readable book, Oversea...
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