![]() ![]() Thank you Text Publishing & Edelweiss for this review copy. Not exactly a light read but certainly a worthwhile one that will stick with you long after you've put it down. Cash passed away from cancer that same year at the age of thirty-eight. In The Delinquents we follow young lovers Lola and Brownie as they deal with teen pregnancy, abortion, abandonment, prostitution, corruption and poverty. It was followed by Down by the Dockside in 1963. She published her first novel, The Delinquents in 1962. ![]() Ill-health inspired her to pursue her love of writing in the late 1950s. The Delinquents by Criena Rohan, January 1991, Rainbow Publishing edition, Paperback in English. ![]() She married twice, had two children and worked variously as a singer and ballroom-dancing teacher. She grew up in South Australian and Melbourne, and went on to attend the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. The Delinquents, Criena Rohan's classic novel of rock and roll, youthful rebellion and big dreams, is a love story for the ages.ĭeirdre Cash, who published under the pseudonym Criena Rohan, was born in 1924 in Melbourne. When they are forced to face adult responsibilities, will they rise to the challenge, or fall apart? But the odds - not to mention their mothers, the cops, welfare officers and the stifling conventions of 1950s Brisbane - are against them. ![]()
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