Dedication: 'To my poor, white-headed old Dad...Because of the many long, intricate and beautiful philosophical discussions we used to have on Friday nights as we carried Mother home from the pub...'
OX and M&M list this work as fiction, however, these 'short stories' appear to have autobiographical content. (Source: The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature, 1994; Miller and Macartney, Australian Literature: A Bibliography to 1938: Extended to 1950, 1956)
