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'Until Jack arrives at their door one evening, and steps inside to find the skinny, wild-looking child sitting with her grim-faced father. It's the start of all Jill's problems.
'"Absence makes the heart grow fonder," threatens Jack, as he marches off to war. And he's right, in a way—but this is no ordinary romance.
'Spanning the period from the Depression to the freewheeling '60s, Helen Hodgman's award-winning second book is a masterpiece, a twisted fairytale told with her characteristic dark wit.' (From the Penguin website.)
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Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
- Braille.
Works about this Work
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The Silver Age of Fiction
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 110-115)‘In human reckoning, Golden Ages are always already in the past. The Greek poet Hesiod, in Works and Days, posited Five Ages of Mankind: Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic and Iron (Ovid made do with four). Writing in the Romantic period, Thomas Love Peacock (author of such now almost forgotten novels as Nightmare Abbey, 1818) defined The Four Ages of Poetry (1820) in which their order was Iron, Gold, Silver and Bronze. To the Golden Age, in their archaic greatness, belonged Homer and Aeschylus. The Silver Age, following it, was less original, but nevertheless 'the age of civilised life'. The main issue of Peacock's thesis was the famous response that he elicited from his friend Shelley - Defence of Poetry (1821).’ (Publication abstract)
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Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 15 October 2011; (p. 27)
— Review of Jack and Jill 1978 single work novel -
Rainbow's End
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 335 2011; (p. 47)
— Review of Jack and Jill 1978 single work novel -
Off the Shelf : Fiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 3 September 2011; (p. 30)
— Review of Jack and Jill 1978 single work novel -
Take Three : Fiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 28 August 2011; (p. 26)
— Review of Jack and Jill 1978 single work novel
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Take Three : Fiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 28 August 2011; (p. 26)
— Review of Jack and Jill 1978 single work novel -
Off the Shelf : Fiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 3 September 2011; (p. 30)
— Review of Jack and Jill 1978 single work novel -
Rainbow's End
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 335 2011; (p. 47)
— Review of Jack and Jill 1978 single work novel -
Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 15 October 2011; (p. 27)
— Review of Jack and Jill 1978 single work novel -
Small Things
1979
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , August vol. 23 no. 8 1979; (p. 76)
— Review of Flight and Time 1979 selected work short story ; Jack and Jill 1978 single work novel -
The Silver Age of Fiction
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 110-115)‘In human reckoning, Golden Ages are always already in the past. The Greek poet Hesiod, in Works and Days, posited Five Ages of Mankind: Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic and Iron (Ovid made do with four). Writing in the Romantic period, Thomas Love Peacock (author of such now almost forgotten novels as Nightmare Abbey, 1818) defined The Four Ages of Poetry (1820) in which their order was Iron, Gold, Silver and Bronze. To the Golden Age, in their archaic greatness, belonged Homer and Aeschylus. The Silver Age, following it, was less original, but nevertheless 'the age of civilised life'. The main issue of Peacock's thesis was the famous response that he elicited from his friend Shelley - Defence of Poetry (1821).’ (Publication abstract)
Awards
- 1979 winner Somerset Maugham Award
- Australian Outback, Central Australia,
- Weston, Abermain - Weston - Kurri Kurri area, Hunter Valley, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales,
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cEngland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
- 1920s
- 1930s
- 1940s
- 1950s
- 1960s