Day of My Delight

An Anglo-Australian Memoir

by Martin Boyd

Lansdowne Press, 1974,  ISBN 0701801085, black and white photographic plates at appendix, hardcover, dust-jacket

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing to edges and corners, no inscriptions; dust-jacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with minor rubbing to edges and corners (see photographs)

"This book surveys a lifetime of activity and striving which spans a period that has seen great changes.  He writes as much about his times as his life because he considers that the way the individual reacts to his times is "part of the human evidence that justifies an autobiography".
Although Boyd thought of himself as an Australian, and he says he spent his happiest and most hopeful years in Australia, he lived most of his adult life in England.  These circumstances have provided him with a recurring theme for his novels, and, as a London Times critic said in an article on Australian literature "No one has analysed so acutely the tension between the old world and the new".  In the present book, Boyd experiences have equipped him to do so."