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The aunts' house / Elizabeth Stead.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stead, Elizabeth, 1932- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Orphans--Fiction.
- Orphans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- St Lucia, Queensland : UQP, 2019.
- Summary:
- Sydney, 1942 Recently orphaned, Angel Martin moves into a boarding house populated by an assortment of eccentric and colourful characters. She's befriended by the gregarious Winifred Varnham - a vision in exotic fabrics - and the numerically gifted Barnaby Grange. But not everyone is kind and her scrimping landlady, Missus Potts, is only the beginning of Angel's troubles. Angel refuses to accept her fate and focusses her affections on her two maiden aunts. Despite their resistance, she is determined to forge a sense of belonging. Her visits to the aunts' house on the Bay soon expand her world in ways she couldn't have imagined. Elizabeth Stead brings her classic subversive wit and personal insight to this nostalgic portrait of wartime Sydney. In Angel Martin, she has created a singular and irrepressible character. A true original.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Author biography
- Also by Elizabeth Stead
- Title page
- Imprint page
- Dedication
- The green place
- An unusual friendship
- The aunts' house
- The tram conductor
- Sunday trams
- Jews understand music
- Colours
- The well-read visitor
- Sea pictures #1
- Sea pictures #2
- Clara
- Mariana
- The Duchess of Nullabri
- Summer
- A Mariana picnic
- The man from Brazil
- Uncle George
- Le déjeuner sur l'herbe
- The northern casual
- Monday
- Tuesday
- Through the trees dancing
- The grandfather's room
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-7022-6195-5
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