Ida - Searching for The Jazz Baby

Who is Ida Pender? Is she the elderly woman - Ida-Spider - rumoured to be resident in a 1970's Mental Asylum?
Is she Squizzy Taylor's teenaged gangster moll of the roaring 1920's in Melbourne? The woman the police declared had shapely legs? She is Ida. The Jazz Baby.

Frank Prem explores the story of Ida Pender, largely forgotten now, but once the notorious associate of a 1920s Melbourne gnagster. From the young girl sneaking out of her bedroom window to go dancing at the Palais de Danse, companion, accomplice, then wife and mother to Squizzy Taylor's child by her early twenties, Ida is an extraordinary woman and a marvellous story.

About the author

Frank Prem has been a storytelling poet for more than forty years, and has spent his working life in various parts of the public psychiatry system in Victoria (Australia). He has been published in magazines, e-zines and anthologies, in Australia and in a number of other countries, and has both performed and recorded his work as 'spoken word'.He and his wife live in the beautiful township of Beechworth in the North East of Victoria.

Product details

• Authors: Frank Prem
• Publisher: Wild Arancini Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2023
• EAN: 9781925963847
• ISBN: 978-1-925963-84-7
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 175 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries