Come in Spinner

So have you got a book that is definitely going on your list? Look, there's a book that was published in 1951, but it came into being during the 1940s.

And that's Dymphna Cusack and Florence James' novel of Sydney called Come in Spinner.

And I really love it because it's daring, it's audacious, it's sexy.

It's the lives of women working in a hotel in Sydney during World War II.

We might make Betty from Bendigo our last caller, and then I think I'm going to have hard work to get through all of your texts.

But Patricia in Wollongong, Kate, says, I agree with your guess.

Come In Spinner is number one on my list.

Oh, thank you so much.

And number two, your second choice.

So the second book is a book of fiction, Come in Spinner by Dymphna Cusack and Florence James.

And it's a great World War II novel.

It's sprawling, but also very sharply observed.