Central Mischief: Elizabeth Jolley on Writing, Her Past and Herself compiled by Caroline Lurie

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers. Stamp on imprint page. Wear to book corners and edges, particularly at spine. Slight slant to book. Dust jacket is in very good condition with light creasing to top and tail edges.

Caroline Lurie, Jolley's long-time literary agent, has compiled a collection of her articles, speeches, and essays in Central Mischief.

Jolley writes not only about her life—her childhood in the industrial Midlands of England, the Quaker boarding school she attended, and her experiences as a trainee nurse during WWII, migrating to Australia with three small children in the 1950s—but also about the importance of family and dignity in a changing society, the influence of place upon her work and the frustrations of being a writer. (book flap)