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Just Let Me Be
Just Let Me Be is a 1950 novel from Australian author Jon Cleary. It was his third published full-length novel.[1][2] PremiseJoe Brennan, an ex-serviceman, returns home to Coogee after World War II. He gets a job as a milkman and intends to make enough money to marry his girlfriend Connie. He accidentally kills a man while defending local gangster Bill Pepper and is persuaded to hide the body.[3] ReceptionThe Sydney Morning Herald wrote "The details are exact. The dialogue, slangy but not self-conscious, is convincing. On the other hand there are a number of characters who never emerge as more than routine and conventional figures."[4] AwardsThe novel won the 1950 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal.[5] RepublicationThe novel was later republished in 1990 under the title You, the Jury.[6] Knife in the Family 1957 TV VersionThe novel was adapted for British TV in 1957 under the title Knife in the Family.[7] It was the first acting job in England for Australian actor Rodney Howe who arrived in England seven months previously.[8] The Liverpool Echo said "there was nothing to hold the interest of even the most tolerant viewer."[9] References
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