One Leg Over by Robin Dalton Text, 2017, 197 pages, $33 ____________________ Robin Dalton, literary agent and film producer, is best known for her first memoir, Aunts Up the Cross, which begins, “My great Aunt Juliet was knocked over and killed by a bus when she was eighty-five.” That slim book, originally published under Dalton’s maiden name Robin Eakin, has always been a favourite with Australian readers. Now aged ninety-six, Dalton has produced a snappily titled sequel, One Leg Over. The back cover blurb quotes from page 11: During the five months’ duration (weekends only) of my marriage I did…
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