Walter Richardson

HHR 's father, Walter Lindesay Richardson , had roots in the Irish Protestant Ascendancy and had studied medicine at Edinburgh. His wide intellectual and professional interests included a specialism in obstetrics. While a student, however...

After twenty years of research and writing, HHR published her historical novel Australia Felix (first in a trilogy eventually entitled The Fortunes of Richard Mahony), which is based on the life of her father .

The book opens: It has never been my way to say much about my private life.HHR claims to remember almost nothing about her father : one of the dimmest of the many dim...