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The House of Fiction: Leonard, Susan and Elizabeth Jolley First Edition
Author(s): Susan Swingler (Author)
- Publisher: Fremantle Press
- Publication Date: 26 April 2012
- Edition: First Edition
- Language: English
- Print length: 322 pages
- ISBN-10: 1921888660
- ISBN-13: 9781921888663
Book Description
Susan Swingler is the step-daughter of one of Australias most revered writers. Elizabeth Jolley. Abandoned by her father Leonard at the age of four, Susan had no contact with the Jolley family until they found and reclaimed her at the age of twenty-one. Why they were kept apart is the subject of this startling new memoir. THE HOUSE OF FICTION tells the story of Swinglers quest to find her father. As she painstakingly traces and documents clues to a better understanding of Leonard, she inadvertently unravels an intricate fiction created by Elizabeth Jolley to protect those she loves.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This book is riveting, explosive even, and also deeply moving. –Australian Book Review
Swingler can hold her own against the prose style of her famous stepmother: restrained, detailed and rendered with a beautiful eye and ear. –The Weekend Australian
About the Author
Susan Swingler was born in Birmingham, UK, and lives in rural Gloucestershire. Her jobs have ranged from freelance photographer to gardener, university lecturer to curator and researcher. She and her husband travel widely and have made regular visits to Australia since the late 1970s.
