The floating garden : a novel / Emma Ashmere.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ashmere, Emma, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian fiction--21st century.

Australian fiction.

Australian literature--21st century.

Australian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Place of Publication:

North Melbourne, Victoria : Spinifex Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sydney, Milsons Point, 1926. Entire streets are being demolished for the building of the Harbour Bridge. Ellis Gilbey, landlady by day, gardening writer by night, is set to lose everything. Only the faith in the book she's writing, and hopes for a garden of her own, stave off despair. As the tight-knit community splinters and her familiar world crumbles, Ellis relives her escape to the city at 16, landing in the unlikely care of self-styled theosophist Minerva Stranks. When artist Rennie Howarth knocks on her door seeking refuge from a stifling upper-class life and an abusive husband, Ellis gl

Contents:

""Cover""; ""THE FLOATING GARDEN""; ""PART ONE""; ""CHAPTER ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWO""; ""CHAPTER THREE""; ""CHAPTER FOUR""; ""CHAPTER FIVE""; ""CHAPTER SIX""; ""CHAPTER SEVEN""; ""CHAPTER EIGHT""; ""CHAPTER NINE""; ""CHAPTER TEN""; ""CHAPTER ELEVEN""; ""CHAPTER TWELVE""; ""PART TWO""; ""CHAPTER THIRTEEN""; ""CHAPTER FOURTEEN""; ""CHAPTER FIFTEEN""; ""CHAPTER SIXTEEN""; ""CHAPTER SEVENTEEN""; ""CHAPTER EIGHTEEN""; ""CHAPTER NINETEEN""; ""CHAPTER TWENTY""; ""CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE""; ""CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO""; ""CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE""; ""CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR""; ""CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE""; ""PART THREE""

""CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX""""CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN""; ""CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT""; ""CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE""; ""CHAPTER THIRTY""; ""Sources""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""MORE FROM SPINIFEX PRESS""; ""Haifa Fragments: A Novel""; ""My Sister Chaos""; ""Juno and Hannah""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed July 8, 2015).

ISBN:

9781742199337

174219933X

OCLC:

911001175