The Ladies Of Missalonghi
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Set in the Blue Mountains of Australia at the turn of the twentieth century, The Ladies of Missalonghi chronicles the quiet desperation and unexpected awakening of Missy Wright, a plain, poor, and overlooked spinster living under the thumb of her overbearing family in a rigidly stratified small town. When a mysterious stranger arrives and upends the social order, Missy seizes a chance at love and independence that no one — least of all herself — saw coming. Colleen McCullough, best known for the sweeping saga The Thorn Birds, brings her trademark command of character and landscape to this compact, fiercely observed novella. Rich with social satire and simmering tension, it lays bare the cruelties of a world that assigns women their worth by birth and beauty — and dares to ask what happens when one woman simply refuses to accept that verdict.
Author: Colleen Mccullough
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Set in the Blue Mountains of Australia at the turn of the twentieth century, The Ladies of Missalonghi chronicles the quiet desperation and unexpected awakening of Missy Wright, a plain, poor, and overlooked spinster living under the thumb of her overbearing family in a rigidly stratified small town. When a mysterious stranger arrives and upends the social order, Missy seizes a chance at love and independence that no one — least of all herself — saw coming. Colleen McCullough, best known for the sweeping saga The Thorn Birds, brings her trademark command of character and landscape to this compact, fiercely observed novella. Rich with social satire and simmering tension, it lays bare the cruelties of a world that assigns women their worth by birth and beauty — and dares to ask what happens when one woman simply refuses to accept that verdict.