6 Novels by Elizabeth Jolley
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Overview: Monica Elizabeth Jolley was an award-winning writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s. She was 53 years old when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels (including an autobiographical trilogy), four short story collections, and three non-fiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving significant critical acclaim. She was also a pioneer of creative writing teaching in Australia, counting many well known writers such as Tim Winton among her students. Her novels explore alienated characters and the nature of loneliness and entrapment.
Genre: Fiction » General Fiction/Classics
An Innocent Gentleman
Henry and Muriel Bell lead a peaceful life with their two small daughters in England on the cusp of the Second World War. When Muriel’s Mr Hawthorne drops by unexpectedly one Sunday aftrnoon, the visit precipitates surprising turmoil in the small household. A man of respectable breeding and refined conversation, Mr H. has something to offer both Henry and Muriel, but his posting to London at the outbreak of war disturbs the suddenly delicate balance of personal affairs in the family.
In this, her last novel, Elizabeth Jolley explores issues of innocence and guilt, passion and possession, while carefully exposing the social mores of the time in restrained and sensuous prose.
The Newspaper of Claremont Street
This is the story of an old cleaning woman—known as “Weekly” or “The Newspaper” to the residents of Claremont Street for whom she works—who dreams of escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present. This new edition of a contemporary classic reintroduces this very popular and distinctive character.
Sugar Mother
Edwin Page, an aging but handsome university professor, is married to Cecilia, a young obstetrician who delivers babies every day but doesn’t have children of her own. When work takes Cecilia overseas, Edwin begins an unlikely friendship with 22-year-old Leila and her mother who have moved in next door. As each month passes, Cecilia seems further away, and Edwin’s desire for a child meets little resistance from Leila, who is perfectly willing to play surrogate mother – in more ways than one.
The Sugar Mother explores the way the many little impacts of distance, separation and change can gather force and move people in unexpected directions. It is a delicate and disturbing story of self-deception and secret hopes.
The Well
Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm’s deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester. A twentieth-century Australian classic, The Well is a haunting and wryly humorous tale of memory, desire and loneliness.
Mr. Scobie’s Riddle
Mr Scobie’s arrival at the nursing home of St Christopher and St Jude-and into the clutches of Matron Hyacinth Price-is accidental. Self educated and still preserving the gist of idyllic memeory and wish, Mr Scobie stands apart from the others. For long term resident and eccentric, Miss Hailey, he represents a kindred spirit; for Matron Price-a lady of questionable practices-the latest victim…
But unwittingly Mr Scobie has some recourse-his very simple riddle. Its answer-an ancient commonplace-jolts Matron Price.
Yet it is Mr Scobie’s nephew, Hartley, and the group of nocturnal poker players, who ultimately change Matron Price’s establishment.
Woman in a Lampshade
In this masterly collection of stories, Elizabeth Jolley has created a splendid array of characters, all of whom fail to achieve the expected. Her stories are sometimes slyly comic, sometimes disturbing – but always they are written with a delicacy and compassion as moving as the characters themselves.
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