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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 Top Withins : A Novel
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'When Grace, the daughter of a prosperous mill owner and wife of a moor farmer, speaks these words to her sister Sarah Anne, her life has crumbled. Ever since her arrival at Top Withins, Grace has been overtaken by foreboding. There was even cruelty in this gentle man who was her husband.
'The moors of the West Riding in the county of York are the background to this novel with its blend of family history and fiction.
'Joan M Walker who lives in the north of England is already known as author of short stories.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Val. And for Helene.
  • Epigraph: 'Crying, you came into this world
    While we stood around you, smiling.
    Smiling, you left this world
    And we stood around you, crying.'

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ferntree Gully, Ferntree Gully area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Papyrus Publishing , 1996 .
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      Extent: 276p.
      ISBN: 1875934073
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Works about this Work

Untitled 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Multicultural Book Review , vol. 4 no. 3 1996; (p. 21)
— Review of Top Withins : A Novel Joan M. Walker , 1996 single work novel
Top Withins Has Been Denied its Complete Cycle of Life Andrea Danguillier (interviewer), 1994 single work interview extract biography
— Appears in: Australian Multicultural Book Review , vol. 2 no. 3 1994; (p. 28-31)
Untitled 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Multicultural Book Review , vol. 4 no. 3 1996; (p. 21)
— Review of Top Withins : A Novel Joan M. Walker , 1996 single work novel
Top Withins Has Been Denied its Complete Cycle of Life Andrea Danguillier (interviewer), 1994 single work interview extract biography
— Appears in: Australian Multicultural Book Review , vol. 2 no. 3 1994; (p. 28-31)
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