The Aunts' House
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The Aunts' House

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Aunts' House

About this book

Sydney, 1942 Recently orphaned, Angel Martin moves into a boarding house populated by an assortment of eccentric and colourful characters. She's befriended by the gregarious Winifred Varnham – a vision in exotic fabrics – and the numerically gifted Barnaby Grange. But not everyone is kind and her scrimping landlady, Missus Potts, is only the beginning of Angel's troubles. Angel refuses to accept her fate and focusses her affections on her two maiden aunts. Despite their resistance, she is determined to forge a sense of belonging. Her visits to the aunts' house on the Bay soon expand her world in ways she couldn't have imagined. Elizabeth Stead brings her classic subversive wit and personal insight to this nostalgic portrait of wartime Sydney. In Angel Martin, she has created a singular and irrepressible character. A true original.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Author biography
  3. Also by Elizabeth Stead
  4. Title page
  5. Imprint page
  6. Dedication
  7. The green place
  8. An unusual friendship
  9. The aunts' house
  10. The tram conductor
  11. Sunday trams
  12. Jews understand music
  13. Colours
  14. The well-read visitor
  15. Sea pictures #1
  16. Sea pictures #2
  17. Clara
  18. Mariana
  19. The aunts' house
  20. The Duchess of Nullabri
  21. Summer
  22. A Mariana picnic
  23. The aunts' house
  24. The man from Brazil
  25. Uncle George
  26. Le déjeuner sur l'herbe
  27. The northern casual
  28. Monday
  29. Tuesday
  30. Through the trees dancing
  31. The grandfather's room
  32. Acknowledgements