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The women's pages / Debra Adelaide

The women's pages / Debra Adelaide
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General Fiction   Wingham . Available .  
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General Fiction   Tea Gardens . Available .  
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General Fiction   Hallidays Point . On Loan . 18 Apr 2024
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ISBN 9781743535981
Shelf Location F/ADE
Author Adelaide, Debra, 1958- author
Title The women's pages / / Debra Adelaide
Publication Details Sydney, NSW.:
2015 Pan Macmillan,,
Collation 295 pages ; : 24 cm. ;
General Note Dove is writing a novel for herself, for her mother and for their literary heroines. It describes the life of Ellis, an ordinary young woman of the 1960s troubled by secrets and gaps in her past. Having read Wuthering Heights to her dying mother, Dove finds she cannot shake off the influence of that singular novel: it has infected her like a disease. In grief's aftermath, she follows the story Wuthering Heights has inspired to discover more about Ellis, who has emerged from the pages of fiction herself - or has she? - to become a modern successful career woman. The Women's Pages is about the choices and compromises women make, about their griefs and losses, and about the cold aching spaces that are left when they disappear from the story. It is an examination of the extraordinary secrets and silences in the lives of ordinary women, as well as the mysterious process of creativity, which is intriguingly inspired by Wuthering Heights. Right up to its astonishing conclusion, The Women's Pages asserts the power of the reader's imagination, which can make the deepest desires and strangest dreams come true.
Bibliography Note Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract/Summary 'Emily Bronte had written this novel especially for her. For her benefit she had sat alone in her narrow bed in the parsonage, her lap desk on her knees, death all around her with that graveyard right next door, the cold wind from the moors behind rattling the windows...But who had Dove written her story for?' Dove is writing a novel for herself, for her mother and for their literary heroines. It describes the life of Ellis, an ordinary young woman of the 1960s troubled by secrets and gaps in her past. Having read Wuthering Heights to her dying mother, Dove finds she cannot shake off the influence of that singular novel: it has infected her like a disease. In grief's aftermath, she follows the story Wuthering Heights has inspired to discover more about Ellis, who has emerged from the pages of fiction herself - or has she? - to become a modern successful career woman. The Women's Pages is about the choices and compromises women make, about their griefs and losses, and about the cold aching spaces that are left when they disappear from the story. It explores the mysterious process of creativity, and the way stories are shaped and fiction is formed. Right up to its astonishing conclusion, The Women's Pages asserts the power of the reader's imagination, which can make the deepest desires and strangest dreams come true.
Subject Families -- Fiction
Women authors -- Fiction
Characters and characteristics in literature -- Fiction
Psychology -- Fiction
Creative ability -- Fiction
Australian authors -- Fiction
General fiction
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