I have read a few other books by Richard Glover and always enjoy his weekly radio show and his sense of humour, so I was looking forward to reading this one. Like Richard Glover, I also grew up in the Land Before Avocado (although I am younger than him – I thought I’d just point that out). Most of all, it will make you realise how far we’ve come – and how much further we can go. And leave you wondering how bizarre things were, not so long ago. The Land Before Avocado will make you laugh and cry, feel angry and inspired. It is also the land of staggeringly awful attitudes – often enshrined in law – towards anybody who didn’t fit in.
It’s a place of funny clothing and food that was appalling, but amusingly so. Let’s break the news now: they didn’t have avocado. The Australia of the late ’60s and early ’70s. It’s a vivid portrait of a quite peculiar land: a place that is scary and weird, dangerous and incomprehensible, and, now and then, surprisingly appealing. In The Land Before Avocado, Richard Glover takes a journey to an almost unrecognisable Australia. There’s plenty of nostalgia right now for the Australia of the past, but what was it really like? The Land Before Avocado by Richard Glover The official blurb reads like this:Ī funny and frank look at the way Australia used to be – and just how far we have come. Mainly for the better I will add! I can’t wait to give it to my daughters to read, they probably won’t believe half of it. I enjoyed his research findings and thinking about the way things have changed in the decades since the 1960s.
Richard Glover has covered so much in this book, attitudes to women, parenting styles, food, anyone who was different, politics, history…the list is endless.
I enjoyed this book and kept reading interesting bits out to my husband, before he told me that he’d read it himself, so could I not share all the good bits along the way!Īs a child during the years of this book, 1960s and 70s, I remember lots of these happenings, but with perspective and age now, it appears they perhaps weren’t quite the heady days we remember. Was there really a time before Avocados? Yes apparently there was such a time, can you even imagine it?
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