“The year that I was getting ready to leave Maroubra, the Beatles were getting ready to leave each other”; and so begins the tales of a South Sydney Lad. Just a South Sydney Lad is a boyhood memoir about a family who loved a gamble, loved the football and who always walked ‘briskly with no skylarking’ to Church on a Sunday. Exploring the Sydney suburb of Maroubra in the 1950s and 60s, the memoir tells a series of whimsical and nostalgic tales reminiscent of the era. It was a time a time when rock began to roll, when the radio talked back, when a bush kangaroo saved more lives than the emergency services, and the national service lottery sent an Australian pop idol, Normie Rowe, to Vietnam without so much as a ‘que sera’… and oh, … when the world nearly blew up during the Cuban Missile Crisis. As he revisits the memories of his youth, Anthony will tell you exactly why he was glad to be a South Sydney Lad!
