 Cover of the first edition | |
| Author | Norman Lindsay |
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| Published | Sydney: The Endeavour Press, 1933 |
Saturdee is a 1933 novel written and illustrated by Australian author Norman Lindsay. It is a humorous novel dealing with mischievous Australian schoolboys and schoolgirls. It forms part of a trilogy, together with Redheap and Halfway to Anywhere . [1] The novel was adapted for television in 1986.
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Halfway to Anywhere is a 1947 novel written and illustrated by Norman Lindsay. It is a humorous novel dealing with Australian adolescents. It the final part of a trilogy which began with Redheap and was continued in Saturdee. According to The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English, "these novels, with their sexually vigorous young protagonists, comically depict small town life." The novel was adapted for the screen in 1972.