- Title:
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The Women in Black (MP3)
- Written by:
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Madeleine St John
- Read by:
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Deidre Rubenstein
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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5 hours 52 minutes
- MP3 size:
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260 MB
- Published:
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July 01 2011
- Available Date:
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July 28 2010
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781743102350
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Humorous Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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"A highly sophisticated work, full of funny, sharp and subtle observations...a small masterpiece."
The Sunday Times
"A little gem...shot through with old-fashioned innocence and sly humour."
Vogue
A lost Australian classic.
At F. G. Goode's department store the women in black are run off their feet, what with the Christmas rush and the summer sales that follow. But it's Sydney in the 1950s, and there's still just enough time left on a hot and frantic day to dream and scheme...
By the time the last marked-down frock has been sold, most of the staff of the Ladies' Cocktail section at F. G. Goode's have been launched into slightly different careers. With the lightest touch and the most tender of comic instincts, Madeleine St John conjures a vanished summer of innocence. Written by a superb novelist of contemporary manners, The Women in Black is a fairytale which illuminates the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.
"Seductive, hilarious, brilliantly observed, this novel shimmers with wit and tenderness."
Helen Garner, award-winning author of The Spare Room