![]() ![]() Funny, tough minded and tender, this is the story of Matilda and her two sisters growing up in Sydney in the 1950s at the time of the Petrov Affair. Fairy bread is sliced white bread spread with butter or margarine and covered with Hundreds and Thousands,1 often served at childrens parties in. She thought about the sad smiling man with his chess set and the newsreel and her tennis ball, up and up and up in the air, high as the tallest tree in the Basin, and Uncle Paul with his hands in his pockets, and her mother’s red shoe falling down down down into the deep green bush for ever. She thought about the princess in the film, ‘How do you do, so glad you could come, how do you do’ and the wonderful butterfly bathroom and poor little Karen and her beautiful red shoes. She thought about the Japs and the Germans and the shining sword and chocolate biscuits, and the Argonauts sailing across the ocean, and the silver trail of snails on cardboard. She thought about the grey green tangled bush at the end of her street, full of cowboys and Red Indians, waiting with their guns and their bows and arrows. Ursula Dubosarsky is widely regarded as one of the most talented and original writers in Australia today. ![]() ![]() ![]() The earth smelt strong to Matilda and full of things growing and dying all at the same time. ![]()
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