Jill and her dad are happy enough after her mother dies. Theirs is a simple life in the outback, far from the big city where a coathanger is being built across a sparkling harbour.
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.
By:
Helen Hodgman Imprint: Text Publishing Company Country of Publication: Australia Dimensions:
Height: 230mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 13mm
Weight: 208g ISBN:9781921758355 ISBN 10: 192175835X Pages: 208 Publication Date:29 August 2011 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Helen Hodgman is the author of the novels Jack and Jill, Broken Words, Passing Remarks, Waiting for Matindi, The Bad Policeman and Blue Skies.