Happy Valley is a place of dreams and secrets, of snow and ice and wind. In this remote little town, perched in its landscape of desolate beauty, everybody has a story to tell about loss and longing and loneliness, about their passion to escape....
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Patrick White's brilliant 1961 novel, set in an Australian suburb, intertwines four deeply different lives. An Aborigine artist, a Holocaust survivor, a beatific washerwoman, and a childlike heiress are each blessed — and stricken — with...
With the death of her mother, middle-aged Theodora Goodman contemplates the desert of her life. Freed from the trammels of convention she leaves Australia for a European tour and becomes involved with the residents of a small French hotel. But...
In White’s 1973 classic, terrifying matriarch Elizabeth Hunter is facing death while her impatient children — Sir Basil, the celebrated actor, and Princess de Lascabane, an adoptive French aristocrat — wait. It is the dying mother who will...
Set in Australia in the 1840s, A FRINGE OF LEAVES combines dramatic action with a finely distilled moral vision. Returning home to England from Van Diemen's land, the Bristol Maid is shipwrecked on the Queensland coast and Mrs Roxburgh is taken...
A previously unpublished novel from the winner of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Two children are brought to a wild garden on the shores of Sydney Harbour to shelter from the Second World War. The boy's mother has died in the...
This is the story of two people living one life. Arthur and Waldo Brown were born twins and destined never to to grow away from each other. They spent their childhood together. Their youth together. Middle-age together. Retirement together. They...
Eddie Twyborn is bisexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a drunken mother. With his androgynous hero — Eudoxia/Eddie/Eadith Twyborn — and through his search for identity, for self-affirmation and love in its many forms, Patrick White...
Патрик Уайт (1912 – 1990) – крупнейший австралийский писатель, лауреат Нобелевской премии за 1973 г. Его книга «Древо человеческое» была и...
