Honour’s Mimic (First Edition)

First Edition. (scarce) A passionate love story with the sounds, smells and tastes of Greece as a background.
223 p. 21 cm. #160222 (Price cut jacket.)
Charmian Clift: “A slow and painstaking writer, she spent the next four years on the romantic novel, Honour’s Mimic (London, 1964). While struggling with this book, she began an autobiographical novel about her childhood (‘The End of the Morning’), and acted as the sounding-board for George Johnston during his writing of My Brother Jack (London, 1964). He returned to Australia in February 1964 for its release; Clift and the children followed in August.
The combination of work pressure and personal pain had become too great by mid-1969. On the night of 8 July, while considerably affected by alcohol, Charmian Clift took a fatal overdose of sleeping tablets at her Mosman home; survived by her husband and three children, she was cremated. Since her death, her reputation has grown.”