Tirra Lirra By The River : A Novel (Neversink) - Softcover

Jessica Anderson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1612193889 ISBN 13: 9781612193885

Publisher: Melville House, 2015

Synopsis

Nora Porteous, a witty, ambitious woman from Brisbane, returns to her childhood home at age 70. Her life has taken her from a failed marriage in Sydney to freedom in London; she forged a modest career as a seamstress and lived with two dear friends through the happiest years of her adult life. At home, the neighbourhood children she remembers have grown into compassionate adults. They help to nurse her back from pneumonia, and slowly let her in on the dark secrets of the neighbourhood in the years that have lapsed.

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Review:

'Nora's family think she's 'reckless, cynical, frivolous' but, like Anderson's novel, she's brave, perceptive and funny about the challenges everybody but especially those who, for reasons of gender, nationality, sexuality or good old free spiritedness, feel like outsiders faces in finding their way in the world.' --Max Liu, The Independent

About the Author:

JESSICA ANDERSON (1916-2010) was an accomplished novelist and playwright from Queensland, Australia. She was a writer in residence at the University of New England, Armidale; a Senior Commonwealth Fellow; and two-time award winner of the Miles Franklin Award for literature (for Tirra Lirra By the River and The Impersonators). Though she did not have the means to devote herself to writing until she was forty, she wrote six novels, ten radio plays, and one short story collection before her death in 2010.

ANNA FUNDER is the author of Stasiland and All That I Am.

About this edition

• Publisher: Melville House
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1612193889
• ISBN 13: 9781612193885
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144