Amy Witting

• May-1990
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Winner of the Barbara Ramsden Prize, 1990. This was life: no sooner had you built yourself your little raft and felt secure than it came to pieces under you and you were swimming again. Born into a world without welcome, Isobel observes it as warily ...

• Nov-1990
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In marriage there are ties that bind, yet sometimes the ties can chafe - and strangle. These stories reach into the darker sides of human nature - incest, illegitimacy, rejection, resentment - exposing the joy and pain of human relationships in all t...

• Sep-1995
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• Aug-1999
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Isobel Callaghan is struggling to make a career as a writer in Sydney. She is isolated, poor and hungry, and fears she's going mad. Leaving her room in a boarding house in search of food, she has a breakdown on the way to the corner shop. Waking in h...

• Dec-2001
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• Feb-2015
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"Amy Witting is comparable to Jean Rhys, but she has more starch, or vinegar. The effect is bracing." -- The New Yorker

A best-selling portrait of the artist as a troubled young woman.

Isobel's imaginary friends include the Virgin Mary...

• May-2017
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When her husband of three decades announces he has a younger lover and wants a divorce, Ella Ferguson realises how protected her life has been -- she has ‘seen no evil, heard no evil and spoken no evil’. Alone, enraged, she must come to terms wit...

• May-2017
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In The Visit -- Amy Witting’s debut novel, first published when she was almost sixty -- a group of Bangoree residents gather to read plays by Beckett and Brecht. But their literary pursuits, and their lives, take an unexpected turn after it is reve...