sentences:  Her short stories appeared in a number of journals and anthologies.In 1967, a collection of them, "An Affair of Clowns", was published by Angus & Robertson.Stephen Torre, in "The Cambridge History of Australian Literature" (2009), described the book's first section, "Some Customs of My Clan" as "stories about a working-class Irish Catholic family narrated by a daughter, an aspiring writer.