Lillian's Eden
by Cheryl Adam
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Pub Date Apr 01 2019 | Archive Date Dec 03 2018
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Description
In Lillian’s Eden, debut novelist
Cheryl Adam takes the reader to Australian rural post-war life in the 1950s
through the life of a family struggling to survive. With their farm destroyed
by fire, Lillian agrees to the demands of her philandering, violent husband
to move to the coastal town of Eden to help look after his Aunt Maggie.
Juggling the demands of caring for her children and two households, and
stoically enduring her husband’s continued indiscretions, Lillian finds an
unlikely ally and friend in the feisty, eccentric Aunt Maggie who lives next
door.
With wonderfully drawn characters reminiscent of Ruth Park and Kylie Tennant,
Cheryl Adam shows us the stark realities of rural life behind the closed
front doors and scented rose-filled gardens. She highlights the endless
physical and mental demands on women like Lillian who have to grapple with
the challenges of a new homeland as well as never ending family
responsibilities.
This rich, raw novel pays homage to friendship and to the rural women whose
remarkable resilience enabled them to find happiness in sometimes the most
unlikely of places.
Advance Praise
“Lillian’s Eden opens a magic door
into 1950s rural Australia. It is an elegantly-paced, colourful excursion
down memory lane, complete with money worries, murky family secrets, an
eccentric old aunt, an abusive, adulterous husband, and a feisty, courageous
wife.
Tragedy, comedy, farce, tenderness, triumph – and grit.”
Carmel Bird
WINNER PATRICK WHITE LITERARY AWARD 2016
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781925581676 |
PRICE | $24.95 (USD) |
PAGES | 410 |