One of Australia's most celebrated novels: one woman's journey from
Australia to London
Nora Porteous, a witty, ambitious woman from Brisbane, returns to
her childhood home at age seventy. 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 neighborhood 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 neighborhood in
the years that have lapsed.
With grace and humor, Nora recounts her desire to escape, the way
her marriage went wrong, the vanity that drove her to get a
facelift, and one romantic sea voyage that has kept her afloat
during her dark years. Her memory is imperfect, but the strength
and resilience she shows over the years is nothing short of
extraordinary. A book about the sweetness of escape, and the mix of
pain and acceptance that comes with returning home.
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