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Tirra Lirra by the river / Jessica Anderson.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Chippendale, N.S.W. : Pan Macmillan Australia, 1997.Edition: Picador edDescription: 202 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780330359719 (paperback)
  • 0330359711 (paperback)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • A823.3 22
LOC classification:
  • PR8257.N35 T57 1997
Awards:
  • Winner Miles Franklin Award 1978.
Summary: A novel that tells of one woman's remarkable life. Nora Porteous flees her small-town family and stifling marriage and creates a new life for herself in London. In her seventies, she returns to Queensland to settle in her childhood home and discovers that everything is not as she remembers.
List(s) this item appears in: Australian General Fiction
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item reserves
Book Melbourne Athenaeum Library Fiction AND Available 060225
Total reserves: 0

First published: South Melbourne, Vic : Macmillan, 1978.

A novel that tells of one woman's remarkable life. Nora Porteous flees her small-town family and stifling marriage and creates a new life for herself in London. In her seventies, she returns to Queensland to settle in her childhood home and discovers that everything is not as she remembers.

Originally published South Melbourne, Vic : Macmillan, 1978.

Winner Miles Franklin Award 1978.

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