Elizabeth Jolley

Accommodating Spouse An (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780140288179

Laden with wit, irony and Jolley's perceptive musings on the ties that bind us, this comedy of manners tells the story of an eccentric professor and the seven women in his life....more details
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Cabin Fever (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780143180081

This is the sequel of sorts to My Father's Moon, and reintroduces us to Vera, many years later, holed up in a hotel room in New York. Vera begins to reflect on her life and in doing so...more details
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Foxybaby (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780892553631

In Foxbaby, Alma Porch, aspiring dramatist, agrees to teach a course in Trinity College's "Better Body Through the Arts" summer program for overweight women. There she's surrounded by starving matrons...more details
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Foxybaby (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780892554058

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Georges' Wife The (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780143180098

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...more details
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Innocent Gentleman An (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780143000662

Henry and Muriel's life on the new estate is relatively harmonious, despite WWII. But the entrance of the gentlemanly Mr Hawthorne into their lives upsets the delicate balance of personal affairs...more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:276

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Learning to Dance: Elizabeth Jolley: Life and Writing (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780143003908

Elizabeth Jolley is one of Australia's most significant and best-loved writers, delighting readers with her acute observation of the world, her wicked humour...more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:324

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Learning to Dance: Elizabeth Jolley: Life and Writing (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780670029747

Reveals the most intimate writing of one of Australia's most loved and acclaimed authors. Through these pieces we discover where Elizabeth's writing has come from and how her thinking has changed during her life....more details
Format:Hardback  Pages:320

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Lovesong (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780140272758

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Miss Peabody's Inheritance (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780892553709

A dazzling comic novel-a delightful romp and a blistering satire. "Reading Jolley makes one feel alive."-Lemony Snicket....more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:164

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Mr. Scobie's Riddle (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780892553693

A dazzling comic novel-a delightful romp and a blistering satire. "Reading Jolley makes one feel alive."-Lemony Snicket....more details
Format:Paperback  Pages:238

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My Father's Moon (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780143180104

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...more details
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Newspaper Claremont St (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780642177957

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Newspaper of Claremont Street The (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9781921361364

Weekly, an old cleaning lady known as 'the newspaper', dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of the past and the present.

This new edition re-introduces one of the author's most popular and distinctive characters...more details
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NEWSPAPER OF CLAREMONT STREET (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780949206596

The Newspaper of Claremont Street is the story of an old cleaning woman, known as Weekly, or 'The Newspaper.' Unknown to the residents of Claremont Street for whom she works...more details
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SUGAR MOTHER (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780949206299

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 leave...more details
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The Sugar Mother (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780892553624

Edwin Page, a fussy middle-aged professor, no sooner bids farewell to his obstetrician wife, Cecilia, who accepted a fellowship abroad, when his new neighbors...more details
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The Sugar Mother (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780892554041

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The Vera Wright Trilogy (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780892554010

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The Vera Wright Trilogy: My Father's Moon / Cabin Fever / The Georges' Wife (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780892553525

Set in 1940s wartime England, the trilogy follows young Vera, who leaves her cultivated Midlands home to become a nurse in a military hospital and is catapulted into adulthood through unorthodox love entanglements with both men and women...more details
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Well - Modern Classics The (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley

ISBN:9780143180012

This important piece of Australian fiction is republished for the first time as a Penguin Modern Classic. Elizabeth Jolley's award-winning novel is presented in a fresh...more details
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The Well (Book)

Elizabeth Jolley;Beverly Dunn

ISBN:9780732023980

Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged eccentric, brings Katherine into her life, and together they run the farm. Then, one night while driving down a deserted track to the farm...more details
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Accommodating Spouse An (Book)

Jolley Elizabeth

ISBN:9780143180234

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...more details
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Fellow Passengers (Book)

Jolley Elizabeth

ISBN:9780140270808

A collection of the best short fiction by one of Australia's most admired and loved writers, covering the last thirty years of her work both published and unpublished....more details
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Five Acre Virgin (Book)

Jolley Elizabeth

ISBN:9781921361371

Brings together two highly acclaimed collections of Jolley's short fiction in a new edition. Includes an insightful foreword by Jolley's long-time agent and friend...more details
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Innocent Gentleman An (Book)

Jolley Elizabeth

ISBN:9780143180227

'One of the most extraordinary writers of her generation'
The Age

Henry and Muriel Bell lead a peaceful life with their two small daughters in England on the cusp of the Second World War.  When Muriel's Mr Hawthorne drops by unexpectedly one Sunday aftrnoon...more details
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Mr Scobie's Riddle (Book)

Jolley Elizabeth

ISBN:9780143180210

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...more details
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Sugar Mother PMC The (Book)

Jolley Elizabeth

ISBN:9780143180180

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...more details
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Well (2xc60)

Jolley Elizabeth

ISBN:9780642176479

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Well: Popular Penguins The (Book)

Jolley Elizabeth

ISBN:9780143202769

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 to the edge of the well...more details
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