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A Few Days in the Country: And Other Stories by Elizabeth Harrower
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"One day, Alice said, 'Eric Lane wants to take me to - ' For the first time, her mother attended, standing still. Eric was brought to the house, and Eric and Alice were married before there was time to say 'knife'. How did it happen? She tried to trace it back. She was watching her mother performing for ...Show more
A Few Days in the Country and Other Stories by Elizabeth Harrower
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A stunning collection of short stories from the author if In Certain Circles. This collection of short fiction from Elizabeth Harrower features a number of previously unpublished works, and Alice which was published for the first time in The New Yorker in 2015. Internationally acclaimed for her five bri ...Show more
Down in the City (Text Classics) by Elizabeth Harrower
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
Esther Prescott has seen little of life outside her wealthy family's Rose Bay mansion-until flashy Stan Peterson comes roaring up the drive in his huge American car and barges into her life. Within a fortnight they are living in his Kings Cross flat. Moody and erratic, proud of his well-bred wife yet bi ...Show more
In Certain Circles by Elizabeth Harrower
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser.
Zoe Howard is 17 when her brother, Russell, introduces her to Stephen Quayle. Aloof and harsh, Stephen is unlike anyone she has ever met, 'a weird, irascible character out of some dense Russian novel'. His sister, Anna, is shy and thoughtful, 'a little orphan'. They may come from different social worlds ...Show more
In Certain Circles by Elizabeth Harrower
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Longlisted for the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award Zoe Howard is seventeen when her brother, Russell, introduces her to Stephen Quayle. Aloof and harsh, Stephen is unlike anyone she has ever met, 'a weird, irascible character out of some dense Russian novel'. His sister, Anna, is shy and thoughtful, ...Show more
The Catherine Wheel (Text Classics) by Elizabeth Harrower
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics
The wind from Siberia as announced by the BBC came down Bayswater Road from the direction of Marble Arch...Searing skin, and petrifying metal and wood, it took possession of London and this early day of the new year. Gently, somehow sympathetically, with a secret sort of throb, my ears ached against it, ...Show more
The Long Prospect by Elizabeth Harrower
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics | Reading Level: very good
Sharply observed, bitter and humorous, The Long Prospect is a story of life in an Australian industrial town. Growing up neglected in a seedy boarding house, twelve-year-old Emily Lawrence befriends Max, a middle-aged scientist who encourages her to pursue her intellectual interests. Innocent Emily will ...Show more
The Watch Tower: Collectors Edition by Elizabeth Harrower
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
"After Laura and Clare are abandoned by their mother, Felix is there to help, even to marry Laura if she will have him. Little by little the two sisters grow complicit with his obsessions, his cruelty, his need to control. Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The Watch Tower is ...Show more
The Watch Tower: Text Classics by Elizabeth Harrower
12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Text Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power. Following their father's death, Laura and Clare are withdrawn from their elite private boarding school by their mother. As their mother slowly withdraws from them, the tw ...Show more
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