In the Half Light: Reminiscences of Growing Up in Australia 1900-1970

In the Half Light is about the way adults remember the other world of their childhood.

It is an absorbing collection of the reminiscences of people who grew up in Australia between 1900 and 1970. Their words provide new perspectives on events we have been accustomed to see as flat sentences in history books. City and country dwellers, rich and poor, white and black, Australian and overseas born – all describe their formative years in evocative detail, producing a vivid picture of childhood in this country.