Circles around and through the lives of a couple who have moved to Bondi, and the lives of their friends. Most particularly their friend Theresa, who is waiting for the arrival of her Kenyan girlfriend, Matindi. This domestic comedy and drama is for anyone aged from ten to sixty who is planning what they will do when they grow up.
Middle-aged, menopause-fearing Rosemary meets 27-year-old Billie--a woman with a tough bike and an even tougher attitude--and falls in love. But when Billie speeds off on a soul-searching mission, Rosemary is left behind to ponder love and longevity--and weather a few adventures of her own.
Reminiscent of the styles of Fay Weldon and Kurt Vonnegut, Ducks is an extraordinary, funny, and loving portrait of two feminists in a postfeminist world.
Winner of the 1989 Christina Stead Fiction Prize, this novel tells the story of a woman living in Clapham surrounded by a menage consisting of her son, her lover, her ex-husband, an alsation and many others. The author has written "Jack and Jill" which won the 1978 Somerset Maugham Award.
Written by the author of "Broken Words", this book contains two short novels. "Blue Skies" is set in a quiet place in Tasmania which is shattered by incest, suicide and murder. "Jack and Jill" was the winner of the 1978 Somerset Maughan Award.
Constable Marcus Blainey has done bad things. This is his effort to set the record straight. Inside his head is not always a comfortable place to be, particularly now his wife has left him and isn't coming back. It also seems his son doesn't plan to forgive him either.
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