The Women's Pages

Author(s): Debra Adelaide

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'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?'


Ellis, an ordinary suburban young woman of the 1960s, is troubled by secrets and gaps in her past that become more puzzling as her creator, Dove, writes her story fifty years later.


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. Instead of returning to her normal life she follows the story it 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 must make, their griefs and losses, and their need to fill in the absent spaces where other women - especially those who become mothers - should have been. And it is about the mysterious process of creativity, about 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.


 

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"Tender, wise and extraordinary reading." - The Guardian

"A satisfyingly complex novel, which offers the pleasures of a well-told story, a page-turner" - Australian Book Review

"It's a meticulously planned story that provides the ultimate breathtaking surprise at the end of the final paragraph." --Good Reading 

"Debra Adelaide's The Women's Pages is a gripping read. It is also a sophisticated meditation on the creative acts of reading and writing." - Sydney Morning Herald

 

Debra Adelaide is the author or editor of over twelve books, including the best-selling Motherlove series (1996-98) and Acts of Dog (2003). Her novels include The Hotel Albatross (1995), Serpent Dust (1998) and the best-selling The Household Guide to Dying (2008), which was sold around the world. In 2013 she published her first collection of short stories, Letter to George Clooney, which was long- and short-listed for three literary awards. Her most recent book is the edited collection, The Simple Act of Reading (2015). She is an associate professor in creative writing at the University of Technology, Sydney.


 

 


 

General Fields

  • : 9781743535981
  • : Pan Macmillan Australia Pty, Limited
  • : Picador Australia
  • : 0.3
  • : September 2015
  • : 233mm X 154mm
  • : Australia
  • : November 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Debra Adelaide
  • : Paperback
  • : 1115
  • : en
  • : 304