Jessica Anderson

To escape her stifling, small-town family, Nora Porteous marries, only to find herself confined with a selfish, sanctimonious husband in a suffocating Sydney suburb, so she escapes to London to find herself

Tirra Lirra by the River

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 Qld to settle in her childhood home and discovers that everything is not as she remembers. The author has won the Miles Franklin Award twice, for this novel in 1978 and 'The Impersonators' in 1980.

Tirra Lirra by the River

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