![]() Milk and Honey consolidates her reputation as a major Australian writer, it is an exciting work of remarkable insight that expands the imaginative dimensions of our world. It is a work of gothid proportions, an astonishing tapestry of character and incident that surprises while never failing to convince.Įlizabeth Jolley continues to take great risks in her work, extending her range and readership at the same time. While much of what we have come to expect and admire in Elizabeth Jolley's work is powerfully present - vivid and diverse characters, pathos, humour and acute perceptions of people and their situations - this novel is in many ways quite unlike anything the author has previously written. Milk and Honey is a haunting new novel showing this skilled and sensitive writer at her best. ![]() ![]() But this, seemingly, by dark, mysterious forces within as much as outside himself. A self-absorbed young musician comes as a pupil-boarder to the house of an 'old European' family and gradually his life is taken over and consumed. ![]()
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