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Madeleine St John
Written by a superb novelist of contemporary manners, this is a fairytale which illuminates the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.
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Nicola shouldn’t have stepped out to buy cigarettes because the man she finds when she returns is not the same Jonathan. That Jonathan would never have simply, unilaterally, decided that…
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Helen Trinca
Helen Trinca has captured the troubled life of Madeleine St John in this moving account of a remarkable writer. After the death of her mother when Madeleine was just twelve…
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Sydney in the 1950s. On the second floor of the famous F.G. Goode department store, in Ladies’ Cocktail Frocks, the women in black are girding themselves for the Christmas rush…
From the author of the bestselling Women in Black, an extraordinary novel about ordinary people.
Alex and Andrew are friends. And Barbara … Barbara is a goddess. Here is the…
Madeleine St. John
An exciting new talent, shortlisted for the 1997 Booker Prize, hailed as ‘a triumph’ by The Times, and a poignant observer of human hearts, foibles and follies. “There isn’t a…
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A classic novel about the women working in the ladies’ frocks section of a department store in Sydney in the 1950s by the Booker-shortlisted Madeleine St. John
Originally published in Great Britain in 1993 by Andrae Deutsch –Copyright page.
A beautiful gift edition of Madeleine St John’s bestselling, much-loved novel-now a major film by Bruce Beresford and successful stage musical by Tim Finn under the title Ladies in Black.
A fairytale which illuminates the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. With the lightest touch and the most tender of comic instincts, Madeleine St John conjures a vanished summer of innocence.
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At the very end of the Ladies’ Frocks Departments, past Cocktail Frocks, there was something very special, something quite, quite wonderful; but it wasn’t for everybody: that was the point…
Simon and Flora Beaufort have three perfect children and a comfortable, happy life in London. When Flora takes the children for a month-long vacation in France, Simon stays home to…
