Foveaux by Kylie Tennant

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Remnant mark on tail foredge. Small mark on top foredge. Interior is still very good.

Foveaux is Kylie Tennant's lively novel about an inner-city suburb of Sydney, with its terraces spilling down steep, narrow streets, its pubs and factories, its clusters of corner shops.

It is crowded with memorable characters such as Honest John Hutchison, the master of municipal skulduggery, Bob Noblett, the alcoholic barrowman, and Bill Bross, the slum landlord.

A novel in the richest tradition of English fiction, Foveaux was widely acclaimed when it first appeared in 1939. (Trove)