ROSEMARY HARMAR - Growing Up at Government House. A Governor's Daughter Looks Back on Her Childhood Experiences of Vice-Regal Life in Sydney Between the Wars.

New Zealand/London, Angus & Robertson, 1989. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall 0207163472 Hardback What was it like to be a child growing up at Government House in Sydney in the 1930s? To watch the comings and goings of notable people, the balls and the garden parties. To play pranks on the aide-de-camp and pester the staff ' downstairs'. To watch your father - the Governor - tensely taking his leave of the Premier, Jack Lang, whom he had just dismissed from office. She recalls the official ceremonies, the dinner parties and charity fetes, the famous visitors who came to stay. The book is illustrated with a fine selection of photographs, both official and unofficial (Lady Game was an excellent amateur photographer), which visually recreates a world so charmingly and nostalgically described in words. Illustrated.