On moving from one island to another.
Clare and Lizzie and 'I' take a journey on the Sylvania from their familiar world of hedgegrows and horse riding to a new one of gumtrees and bush fires.
Margaret Scott's account of the changes in their lives, and her own, embraces fiction, essays, autobiography, poetry and a lot of lies to arrive at a kind of truth.
On the way, we visit childhood fantasy, fumblings over a gear stick in a tiny car, academe and a plelthora of children, stepchildren and friends: Clare's yearnings for a romantic life, Lizzie's eagerness to reinvent the loves of others, along with husbands, lovers, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes and the Tasmanian Hydro!
The background world of houses, gardens, landscapes and the domestic tasks of cleaning, cooking and renovating provide a solid context for the more comically absurd and sharply bleak insights of one of Australia's wittiest writers.
Margaret Scott grows up English, becomes Tasmanian and offers the pleasure and wisdom of a life lived sometimes foolishly, sometimes anxiously, but always with a sharp ovservation.
This 235 page softcover has a moisture mark that impacts on bottom of back cover and last dozen pages or so to diminishing degrees. However none of the pages are stuck together and it is otherwise in a good, tight, clean condition inside and out.
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