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Bookshop on Jacaranda Street, The
by Marlish Glorie
Price $29.95 
- About the Book
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‘Glorie’s style is well paced in a good, interwoven story with a few surprises.’ — Adelaide Advertiser
‘Jacaranda Street has a touch of Tim Winton’s Cloudstreet in the way happiness grows out of the oddest, darkest places. A lovely read.’ — Herald Sun
‘Marlish Glorie has crafted this blackly funny, poignant and sharply telling story while working from a cell in Fremantle Prison. In a fresh and distinctive voice, Marlish has crafted a story about a woman’s quest to retrieve her life from under the piles of junk her husband obsessively collects.’ — Scoop Magazine
It’s never too late to run away from home!
Helen burns her bed and her bridges when she leaves home to run a second hand bookshop. But can you ever really discard the past? For starters there are thousands of musty books to sort through. Then her sons return home with more baggage than a Qantas 747 and on top of all that the drunk who sold her the bookshop is determined to muscle his way back into the business.
Helen desperately wants life to be a literary novel but it’s looking more and more like a pile of pulp fiction. As quirky characters browse the shelves of her bookshop, Helen fights for the right to choose a future that is not yet written.
- Categories
- Book Club Reads, Adult Fiction
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Edition
- 1
- Publisher
- Fremantle Press
- ISBN13
- 978 1 921 361 449
- HB/PB
- Paperback
- Format
- C Format (230 x 152mm)
- Pages
- 290
- Other Editions
- Sample Chapter
- Bookshop on Jacaranda St web.pdf
- Media
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Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things