Jim Davidson is a historian, biographer and former
editor of Meanjin (1975–82). He has been an academic and an opera
critic, and the author of two prize-winning biographies Lyrebird
Rising: Louise Hanson-Dyer of Oiseau-Lyre, 1884-1962 and A
Three-Cornered Life: The historian WK Hancock. The latter won the
Prime Minister’s Prize for History, a Western Australian Premier’s
Award and the Age Book of the Year for non-fiction.
He is also the co-author of Holiday Business: Tourism in Australia
since 1870 (2000) and Moments in Time: A book of Australian
postcards (2016).
‘The book calls into question the popular myth that the family is a nurturing and loving place and reminds us, in timely fashion, that families can be destructive and dangerous environments. Davidson gives us a vivid and disturbing portrait of a family in which no one knows how to love properly.’ — Alex Miller
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