Strike Me Lucky (novel)

In The Bulletin a reviewer noted: "Joy Cleary, who is Jon Cleary’s wife (this is her first novel), may have had her eye on the films when writing the story, for it builds up into just the sort of climax Hollywood likes, with the schoolmaster and the glamorous Gina dashing madly in an old Rolls Royce from one public meeting to another to cope with various uproars, and with the Town Drunk at last blowing-up the mine which has by then run-out of gold...It would have been better, really, if Mrs. Cleary had kept her eye on Australia in the way, say, that Chevallier keeps his eye on France, for these people are not very real, and, consequently, are not profoundly comic. But it could make a most diverting film, and on its superficial level it reads crisply and amusingly."^[7]

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