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A Change in the Light:Text Classics by Amy Witting
Category: Classic | Series: Text Classics
When her husband of three decades announces he has a younger lover and wants a divorce, Ella Ferguson realises how protected her life has been-she has 'seen no evil, heard no evil and spoken no evil'. Alone, enraged, she must come to terms with her failed marriage and her relationships with her adult ch ...Show more
After Cynthia by Amy Witting
Category: Fiction
A wise and compassionate novel set primarily in the staffroom of a girl's school. It tells the story of Josephine, a caring teacher who becomes emotionally involved in the plight of one of her students, Cressida. Cressida is a fragile girl, almost suicidal, and Josephine encourages her to stand up to he ...Show more
I for Isobel Text Classics by Amy Witting; Charlotte Wood (Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Winner of the Barbara Ramsden Prize, 1990. This was life: no sooner had you built yourself your little raft and felt secure than it came to pieces under you and you were swimming again. Born into a world without welcome, Isobel observes it as warily as an alien trying to pass for a native. Her collectio ...Show more
Isobel On The Way To Corner Shop by WITTING Amy
Category: Fiction
Sequel to 'I For Isobel'.Isobel Callaghan fears she is going mad. She has resigned from her job, and is trying to survive as a writer. With no food left in her rooming-house attic, she sets out to buy provisions from the corner shop. On the way she collapses, and to her surprise wakes up in hospital . . ...Show more
Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop:Text Classics by Amy Witting
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Isobel Callaghan is struggling to make a career as a writer in Sydney. She is isolated, poor and hungry, and fears she's going mad. Leaving her room in a boarding house in search of food, she has a breakdown on the way to the corner shop. Waking in hospital, Isobel learns that she will be confined to a ...Show more
Selected Stories: Text Classics by Amy Witting
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Amy Witting was a master of the short story, the genre in which she felt 'most at home'. Her subjects-childhood and school, marriage and loneliness, the cruelty of men and women-are rendered in a crisp, understated style, at once compassionate and unsentimental. This new selection of twenty pieces from ...Show more
The Visit: Text Classics by Amy Witting
Category: Classic | Series: Text Classics
In The Visit-Amy Witting's debut novel, first published when she was almost sixty-a group of Bangoree residents gather to read plays by Beckett and Brecht. But their literary pursuits, and their lives, take an unexpected turn after it is revealed that the late Roderick Fitzallan set some of his celebrat ...Show more
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