Researching Australian entertainment history was a challenge well worth the effort. When The Glitter Fades encapsulates the 1920s to 1950s in an engaging generational saga, love triangle revenge story of murder and mayhem among spectacular performances.
Librarians are angelic beings with unfathomable knowledge on how to find just about anything in the bottomless pit of books, information, resources, links, interlibrary loans, and nooks and crannies of cyberspace library heaven.
As part of my research for When The Glitter Fades, I sent my son on a trapeze lesson to report back what it feels like to swing through the air from a great height, while I took the safer option of hula hooping.