Lipstick Swag and Sweatrag by Beth Beckett

Lipstick Swag and Sweatrag

Memoirs of a Patrol Padre’s Wife The Australian Inland Mission 1947-1955

by Beth Beckett

Central Queensland University Press, 1999, ISBN 1875998373, black and white photographs, paperback

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, previous owners stamp to title page (see photographs)

“Beth Beckett’s first home as a young bride was an ancient truck jolting along bush tracks in the Outback.  Her husband Ken’s parish extended from the Kimberley Ranges to the Barkly Tablelands, an area five times the size of Victoria.  When their son Colin was born, his cot was welded into the cabin of the truck.  They didn’t just give orthodox pastoral care; they fixed windmills, gave nursing help, extracted teeth and shared the talk and the cup that cheers.”