The Well (King Penguin) - Softcover
In this haunting tale of obsessive love and sexual awakening, a young orphan is drawn away from her guardian to the well where the injured voice of a my sterious "dead" creature calls her.
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Elizabeth Jolley was one of Australia's most celebrated writers, with a formidable international reputation. She was recognised in Australia with an AO for services to literature and was awarded Honorary Doctorates from Curtin University (1986); Macquarie (1995), Queensland (1997) and The University of New South Wales (2000). She died in 2007.
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The suspense in this chilling novel by the awesomely talented Australian writer ( Miss Peabody's Inheritance is ignited in the very first line, when Hester Harper's ancient father asks her what she has brought him from the store. She has in fact brought the pale orphan Kathy, for herself, to cherish and teach, to add a grace note to the dirge of life on their South Australian farm. Rigid Hester wears a special boot on her congenitally twisted foot, and Kathy stirs in her the forbidden feelings roused long ago by her German governess. Now she expresses them in lavish gifts to Kathy, in days of wrenching closeness while the two bake, preserve and sew together. When her father dies, Hester's prodigality forces her to sell her property and rent a cottage in a remote corner of the vast acreage that had once been hers. She agrees reluctantly to take Kathy to a dance, lets her drive home and is panic-stricken when their pickup truck strikes something large and human, which they prod with the truck's fender into the well. Events then take an even more surprisingand grislyturn, and the ending is left deliberately ambiguous. The lump never leaves the reader's throat; suspicion and horror multiply; here is a book that will not let you go.
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- PublisherPenguin Books
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0140089012
- ISBN 13 9780140089011
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages192
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