- Man-woman relationships, fiction, Fiction, romance, historical, Australia, fiction, Fiction, gothic
Exotic Tilly, a talented and beautiful misfit, returns from Europe to the small Victorian town of Dungatar to nurse her mad old mother. Her reappearance after twnety years is met with suspicion and malice from the eccentric locals until they discover her startling dressmaking skills.
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Classical in form, grave, effortless and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Rosalie Ham
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 296
- Publisher
- Duffy and Snellgrove
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781875989706
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