The Missus

About the Book

The Missus is the second book in a trilogy tracing the blossoming of a woman’s identity and sexuality from childhood through to middle age. Following on Brothers? Uncles! Sister? Aunt! it traces Sue’s marriage from the late 1940s to the 1980s when she meets Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh. The story is set against the complex lives of her extended family, exploring themes common to many Australian marriages of that era.

About the Author

Tamaso’s writing first appeared at the age of nine in the children’s section of the Sydney Sunday Sun newspaper. Among her published works are nine teenage novelettes for ‘reluctant readers’ on themes relevant to teenagers of the 1960s and 1970s, books on Australian birds, encyclopedia nature articles, short stories and poems in anthologies from UK, USA, India and Australia, and a short novel Skye’s the Limit, telling of a young girl’s fight to save a rainforest. Her writing embraces mid-twentieth century social themes from middle-class respectability through hard-drinking club and working men’s life, juxtaposed against solitary independence among nature and spiritual awakening. For the last thirty years of her life till her death aged 92 in 2020 she lived and wrote in the Rainbow Region, an area in the lush subtropics of northern NSW, Australia.