Melting moments
Goldsworthy, Anna2020
Book
It is 1941. Eighteen-year-old Ruby leaves behind the family farm, her serious mother and roguish father, and heads for Adelaide. After a brief courtship, she enters into a hasty marriage with a soldier about to go to war - who returns a changed man. In this absorbing novel, Anna Goldsworthy recreates the world of Adelaide half a century ago, and portrays the phases of a woman's life with intimacy and sly humour. We follow Ruby as she contends with her damaged husband and eccentric in-laws. We see her experience motherhood and changing social circumstances, until, in a moving twist, a figure from the past reappears, to kindle a late-life romance. In her captivating fiction debut, Goldsworthy evokes a woman's life in a pre-feminist world. In this tender, funny book, she combines an Austenesque wit with Alice Munro's feeling for human complexity.
Main title:
Melting moments / Anna Goldsworthy.
Author:
Goldsworthy, Anna, author
Work:
Imprint:
Carlton, VIC : Black Inc., 2020.©2020
Collation:
230 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781863959988 (paperback)
Dewey class:
A823.4
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
364339