Elizabeth Jolley

"Alma Porch, novelist and aspiring dramatist, is hired to teach a course in Trinity College's 'Better Body Through the Arts' summer program for overweight adults. On the rundown campus in the remote Australian outback, Alma is surrounded by starving matrons, orgies of sex and gluttony, and an eccentric group of staff and students who are eager to open themselves to the transforming possibilities of her screenplay, 'Foxbaby (sic)'--Cover p. .

Edwin and his wife, Cecilia, are parted for a year while Cecilia pursues a medical fellowship, and Edwin soon finds his life complicated when his new neighbors--a widow and her twentyish daughter--move in uninvited.

Vera and Mr George have made a new life together but Vera's thoughts retuyrn 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 and disorder of her firendship with Nöel and Felicity, the fun and vulgarity shared with her 'widow' on the long voyage to Australia? And must we always repeat the past?

A lonely London spinster's correspondence with an Australian novelist leads her to new freedom.

This is the story of an old cleaning woman?known as?Weekly" or?The Newspaper" to the residents of Claremont Street for whom she works?who dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present. This new edition of a contemporary classic reintroduces this very popular and distinctive character.

Two women test the limits of their love as they seek to reveal themselves and the events of the past in remote western Australia.