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Miss Peabody's Inheritance by Elizabeth Jolley
Category: Fiction | Series: UQP Modern Classics
In this potent tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne is a brilliant, witty and accomplished woman. The exotic tale of this flamboyant eccentric and her European travels - with jealous secretary and shy schoolgirl pr ...Show more
Mr Scobie's Riddle by Elizabeth Jolley
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics S.
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 Scobie stands apart from the others. This bleakly comic investigation of old age, exile and dis ...Show more
My Father's Moon by Elizabeth Jolley
Category: Fiction
Vera is young, awkward and naive. As a schoolgirl, she has her sheltered idealism, her Quaker boarding-school education, and the warm, enveloping sense of security of her parents. As a student nurse during the war, her transition into womanhood is rapid, painful and disastrous. And as an unmarried mothe ...Show more
NEWSPAPER OF CLAREMONT STREET THE by JOLLEY ELIZABETH
Category: Fiction
The old cleaning woman, known as 'weekly' or 'the newspaper' dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present - something which is unknown to the residents of Claremont Street.
Palomino by ELIZABETH JOLLEY
Category: Fiction
Elizabeth Jolley's first novel is an unusual, haunting story of the deep relationship between two women, set against the solitude, beauty and harshness of the West Australian landscape.
Sisters by Drusilla Modjeska (Editor); Gillian Mears; Elizabeth Jolley; Helen Garner; Beth Yahp; Dorothy Hewett
Category: Biography
Edited by Drusilla Modjeska, acclaimed author of The Orchard, Poppy and Exiles at Home, this famous anthology explores the sometimes joyous, sometimes vexed world of sisters, with stories and essays by six of Australia's finest writers comprising: Gillian Mears; Elizabeth Jolley; Helen Garner; Beth Yahp ...Show more
The Georges' Wife by Elizabeth Jolley
Category: Fiction
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. In The Georges' Wife, Elizabeth Jolley returns to the themes of discord and harmony between brothers and sister, husbands ...Show more
The Newspaper of Claremont Street: Fremantle Press Treasures by Elizabeth Jolley
Category: Fiction
The central character of Weekly dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present, as she battles against a hostile community to buy her plot of land. The Gothic quality and the climax of the novel reveal Jolley's ability to create a stunning and original plot.
The Sugar Mother by Elizabeth Jolley
Category: Fiction
An ageing but handsome university professor, Edwin Page, is married to Cecilia, a much younger woman who is an obstetrician and gynaecologist. When the childless Cecilia goes away for a year's study leave, Edwin finds himself more and more in the company of Leila and her mother who live next door. Leila ...Show more
The Sugar Mother by Elizabeth Jolley
Category: Fiction
An aging but handsome university professor, Edwin Page, is married to Cecilia, a much younger woman who is an obstetrician and a gynaecologist. (He was attracted to her in the first place by all the mysterious things she knew about the human body.) When the childless Cecilia goes away for a year's study ...Show more