Marian Eldridge, The Canberra Times, June 24, 1989

Between Careers, Three Sydney Novels


Set in Sydney in the late seventies, Inez Baranay’s witty, satirical first novel takes us into the life of a classy call girl whose work entails servicing well-heeled business men who ply her with champagne, dinner parties and, often as not, their life stories…the name of the game is illusion and illusion is the theme of the novel…..Wittily, humorously, Between Careers takes a close look at the moral values of both the ancient profession and of more conventional ways of living….. The prose is spare and sparkling…

-Marian Eldridge, The Canberra Times, June 24, 1989