The Women in Black
"A pocket masterpiece. A jewel."—Hilary MantelA classic novel about the women working in the ladies' frocks section of a department store in Sydney in the 1950s. Written by a superb novelist of contemporary manners, The Women in Black is a fairy tale that illuminates the extraordinariness of...
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"A pocket masterpiece. A jewel."—Hilary MantelA classic novel about the women working in the ladies' frocks section of a department store in Sydney in the 1950s. Written by a superb novelist of contemporary manners, The Women in Black is a fairy tale that illuminates the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781921922299 (192192229X)
Publish date: May 7th 2013
Publisher: Text Classics
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Geez, I dunno. What am I missing? I think this is possibly the first time I have ever been bamboozled and swept off a book's trail by its foreword. Coming to this book knowing nothing about Madeleine St John, I decided to read the foreword written by the film director, Bruce Beresford, who was Ma...
This book tells the lives of the Sales Assistants in Ladies’ Cocktail Frocks of the posh F.G. Goode department store. There are Patty, Fay, and Magda (a Continental in charge of Model Gowns –one of a kind gown available in one size only). Lisa (aka Lesley) had just done her Leaving Certificate (ie...
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