A beautiful hardback gift edition of Madeleine St John's bestselling, much-loved novel-now a major film by Bruce Beresford and successful stage musical by Tim Finn.
Madeleine St John was born in Sydney in 1941. She studied Arts at Sydney University, where her contemporaries included Bruce Beresford, Germaine Greer, Clive James and Robert Hughes. In 1993, St John published her first novel, The Women in Black, the only book she set in Australia. Her third novel, The Essence of the Thing (1997), was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
`Seductive, hilarious, brilliantly observed, this novel shimmers
with wit and tenderness.'
-- Helen Garner
`An exceptional writer. Those of us who knew her at Sydney
University back in the late 1950s are still trying to forgive
ourselves that we never guessed what she would become.'
-- Clive James
`A knockout - ironic, sharp, alive, and then you're stopped in your
tracks by the warmth of her insights.'
-- Joan London
`A little gem...shot through with old-fashioned innocence and sly
humour.'
* Vogue *
`A highly sophisticated work, full of funny, sharp and subtle
observations...a small masterpiece.'
* Sunday Times (UK) *
`There is something special about...The Women in Black. St
John's tone is...a joy: brisk, perfectly managed and, in its
disdain for clutter, oddly life-affirming. She casts an airy spell
with the deftness of her prose, which moves gracefully, swiftly and
with perfect manners...[St John] conjures a Sydney on the cusp of
modern promise; a place where her characters can meet the future
with a bright face and step out of the past like an old dress,
where limits can be lightly shaken off.'
-- Delia Falconer * Australian *
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