The comical 'autobiography' of a young girl growing up in the Australian suburbs in the sixties and seventies.
'Dad was just an ordinary bloke who called a bob a bob, and then, through no fault of his own, a bob became ten cents. A quid became two dollars, and Australia became part of the real world. Once television showed us what life could be like it was hard to be satisfied with what you had.'
Moya thinks if her parents had been more like the cool 'moms and pops' on American TV, life would have been more exciting. But she was stuck in the 'burbs and how thrilling did that ever get? Exotically named after an Irish tap dancer (after all of the good names had been taken by her two older sisters Sue and Rhonda), Moya tries hard to fit in to her suburban life with very mixed results. Social mobility is now something to aspire to and Moya is bursting to get up and out of that suburban life.
Fast and funny, this is an outstanding memoir of a young life as Moya Sayer-Jones remembers it. Rightly considered as an Australian classic alongside 'Puberty Blues' and 'Unreliable Memoirs', 'Little Sister' is sharp, warm and wittily nostalgic.
