3 Novels by Madeleine St John
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Overview: Madeleine St John was born in Sydney. She graduated from Sydney University in 1963 and lived in London for most of the succeeding years, until her death in 2006. Her novels include The Women in Black, 1993, A Pure Clear Light, 1996, and The Essence of the Thing, 1997, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
Genre: Fiction, Contemporary, General
A Pure Clear Light: Madeleine St John at her Booker Prize-shortlisted best: irony-edged, elegant, compassionate, true. Simon and Flora Beaufort are married with three children: they live a solid comfortable life. Yet both feel the dark abyss, the transitory nature of what underpins their lives and holds them together.
When Flora takes the children to France for a month, Simon is drawn inexorably to another woman. Flora arrives home to find him there but not there, and in his unnameable absence heeds the cry of her reawakened faith.
‘St John is smart and perceptive and witty and can write up a storm…She is a wonderfully gifted writer; her small books contain large heart.’
A Stairway to Paradise: A Stairway to Paradise is classic Madeleine St John: poignant, witty and full of sharp and subtle observations. Alex and Andrew are friends. And Barbara…Barbara is a goddess. Here is the eternal triangle, the story of three people locked in an unhappy tangle of emotions, none able to articulate the precise quality of their longing and dissatisfaction. Are any of them truly interested in reaching the ‘paradise’ they claim to be seeking, or are they actually trying to avoid it?
In St John’s hands, what is commonplace is transformed and transcendent. This is the work of an extraordinary writer.
The Women in Black: A classic novel by a superb observer of contemporary manners, The Women in Black illuminates on every page the extraordinariness of ordinary lives.
It’s Sydney in the late 1950s, and the Ladies’ Cocktail Frocks department of the famous F.G. Goode department store is bracing itself for the Christmas rush. The women that make up its staff-in their regulation black dresses-are run off their feet, but there’s just enough time left to dream and scheme. By the time the last marked-down frock has been sold, most of the staff will have been launched into different careers.
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