Shy Love Smiles and Acid Drops

This book is based on an exchange of letters between Jane Sinclair's parents Jean Langley artist and John Sinclair music critic 1960-62 when the author was five and her mother followed her lover Arthur Boyd to London and took her daughter with her. Set in England and Australia at a time when their friends John and Sunday Reed were high-profile arts patrons at their property Heide a period of sexual liberation and a flowering of the arts the complex relationship between Jane's parents emerges through an exchange of long often heartbreaking letters and journal entries.