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'Startlingly good...It divines riddles of mortality' The Age Mr Scobie's arrival at the nursing home of St Christopher and St Jude and descent into the clutches of Matron Hyacinth Price is accidental. Adrift in his own memories but preserving a gentle politesse, Mr...
'A fantastic book in all senses of that word' Sydney Morning Herald The Professor is married to Hazel, a diligent and generous (but rather plain) woman. She is so close to her twin, Chloe, that both women live under one roof with the Professor. Back from an overseas...
'One of the most extraordinary writers of her generation' The Age Henry and Muriel Bell lead a peaceful lifewith their two small daughters in England on the cusp of the Second World War. When Muriel'sMr Hawthorne drops by unexpectedly one Sunday aftrnoon, the visit...
Driving one night along the deserted track that leads to the farm, Miss Hester Harper and Katherine run into a mysterious creature. They dump the body into the farm's deep well but the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and the closer Katherine is drawn...
'Her warmest novel, her most moving and possibly the best introduction to her fiction' New York Times Book Review Edwin Page, an aging but handsome university professor,is married to Cecilia, ayoungobstetrician who delivers babies every day but doesn't have children of...
Vera has cabin fever. Confined with her thoughts in the concrete tower of aNew York hotel, she is haunted by her mother's reminders of what she should have been, and the desperate choices she faced as an unprotected single mother. Elizabeth Jolley writes lucidly of...
Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads...
Vera and Mr George have made a new life together but Vera's thoughts return again and again to loves and lovers, meetings and partings - the voices that echo in the mind like music. What has she learned from the well-bred peace of the Georges' household; the decadence...
In this masterly collection of stories, Elizabeth Jolley has created a splendid array of characters, all of whom fail to achieve the expected. Her stories are sometimes slyly comic, sometimes disturbing but always they are written with a delicacy and compassion as...
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