Well the deed is done, the blog is a ‘presence’ of some kind on the web. I take consolation from the thought that my digital ignorance is not that different from my automotive incapacity; ‘just drive’ I tell myself, don’t worry about what’s under the car’s bonnet or in the computer’s hard drive.
Now, my one contribution so far to the Collins’ literary oeuvre is Solly’s Girl, a companion piece if you like to Alva’s Boy written by my husband Alan Collins. He was a professional writer and his works are significant contributions to Australian-Jewish literature; but there won’t be any more since he died in 2008.
- Troubles
- The Boys from Bondi
- Going Home : Joshua
- A Promised Land?
- A Thousand Nights at the Ritz
- Alva’s Boy
But fifty-one years’ of marriage leave their mark and inevitably Alan is ‘all over my book like a rash’. In this blog conversation I’m surely going to quote from his work so we’d best get this point clear from the start. And no doubt I shall reference the life we shared, the family we created; the way it was for ‘the boy from Bondi’ and his ‘ten pound Pom’.
Alan and Ros Collins 
Well, I’d have to disagree that your only contribution is your own book! It is your work as literary executor that has kept Alan’s books in the public eye, and through your initiative, has ensured that he has a digital presence as well!
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