Ladies' rest and writing room
Kelly, Kim, (Novelist)2024
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Christmastime, 1922. Sydney is at last waking from the nightmare of the Great War, and rekindled hope brings a burst of new energy to the city. Dotty Bluebrook does not share the shift in mood. Drifting through her rich-girl routine of shopping and social engagements, she is secretly mourning the loss of a forbidden lover who went off to fight and never returned. He's been missing in action for four long years – and she's losing her mind. Clarinda Littlemore is grieving losses of a more concrete kind. Her beloved father and brothers are unquestionably dead – leaving her and her mother in poverty. Taking a job in the Ladies' Rest and Writing Room of an elegant department store, Clarinda is craving a life beyond filling inkpots and replenishing stationery supplies. One hot summer morning, when Dotty sweeps into the rose-pink haven of the writing room to pen a letter to her non-existent man, Clarinda watches her, and a recognition flares with resentment at her privilege. But soon she senses that Dotty's in some desperate trouble of her own and, with recognition ever deepening, Clarinda takes a chance to rescue them both.
Main title:
Ladies' rest and writing room / by Kim Kelly ; read by Caroline Lee.
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Edition:
Complete and unabridged.
Imprint:
Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, 2024℗2024.
Collation:
3 audio discs (CD) (3 hr., 38 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container.
Performers:
Read by Caroline Lee.
Awards:
Winner of the 2023 Finlay Lloyd 20/40 prize.
ISBN:
9781038667489
Language:
English
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BRN:
459139
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