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7 20 y separately published work icon The Women in Black Madeleine St John , ( trans. Marie Rahn with title Drei Frauen in Schwarz ) Munich : Wilhelm Heyne , 2021 Z44943 1993 single work novel 'The Women in Black is a perfect-pitch comedy of manners set in the ladies' cocktail section of F.G. Goode, a department store in 1950s Sydney. The women in black are run off their feet, what with the Christmas rush and the summer sales that follow. But it's Sydney in the 1950s, and there's still just enough time left on a hot and frantic day to dream and scheme. By the time the last marked-down frock has been sold, most of the staff of the Ladies Cocktail section at F. G. Goodes have been launched or precipitated into slightly different careers. For alterations of the tape-measure and pins variety are not the only kind which may turn out to be crucial in a woman's life.' (Provided by Text Publishing, 2009.)
3 9 y separately published work icon A Stairway to Paradise Madeleine St John , ( trans. Marie Rahn with title Der Weg Ins Paradies ) Munich : Wilhelm Heyne , 2021 Z219827 1999 single work novel 'Alex and Andrew are friends. And Barbara…Barbara is a goddess. Here is the eternal triangle, the story of three people locked in an unhappy tangle of emotions, none able to articulate the precise quality of their longing and dissatisfaction. In St John’s hands, what is commonplace is transformed and transcendent.' (From Text Publishing's website.)
2 y separately published work icon Blueberry Glenna Thomson , ( trans. Marie Rahn with title Blaubeer Garten ) Berlin : Ullstein , 2018 10476628 2017 single work novel

'Blueberry is a heart-warming debut novel about starting over, as a little blueberry orchard in the hills offers one woman the chance to change her life forever . . .

'Greer O’Reilly needs to start over. Her professional success belies private sadness and domestic overload. She’s torn between her career and motherhood. Her partner of twelve years has left her. And up ahead is her new home - a beautiful though neglected blueberry orchard in the hills of north-east Victoria.

'But when she and her six-year-old daughter Sophie arrive at the property to take possession, there’s an unforeseen complication - the former owner, 81-year-old artist and jazz lover Charlie Chandler, refuses to move out. Charlie is dying and desperate to spend his last days in his old home.

'With Greer at the beginning of her new life, and Charlie at the end of his, the unlikely pair soon form a close bond. One that will offer the strength and inspiration Greer needs – because the next twelve months will either make or break her . . . ' (Publication summary)
2 9 y separately published work icon The Voyagers : A Love Story Mardi McConnochie , ( trans. Marie Rahn with title Wenn das Meer die Liebe trägt ) Berlin : Econ-und-List-Taschenbuch-Verl. , 2013 Z1775619 2011 single work novel historical fiction 'In 1943, Stead arrives in Sydney Harbour hoping to spend his shore leave with Marina, a woman with whom he shared three magical days before the war. But Marina is gone, and has been missing for almost five years.

'And so begins an extraordinarily powerful and compelling journey - across the seas and the great stages of the war - as Stead retraces the steps of the one woman he has truly loved.' (From the publisher's website.)
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