Tirra Lirra By The River by Jessica Anderson

Tirra Lirra By The River by Jessica Anderson

Nora Porteous, a witty, ambitious woman from Brisbane, returns to her childhood home at age 70. Her life has taken her from a failed marriage in Sydney to freedom in London; she forged a modest career as a seamstress and lived with two dear friends through the happiest years of her adult life. At home, the neighbourhood children she remembers have grown into compassionate adults. They help to nurse her back from pneumonia, and slowly let her in on the dark secrets of the neighbourhood in the years that have lapsed.

Jessica Anderson was born in Gayndah, Queensland in 1916. She left school at the age of sixteen before briefly studying art at Brisbane Technical College. For most of her life she lived in Sydney.

Anderson wrote stories and adapted novels for radio before she published her first novel, An Ordinary Lunacy, in 1963. In 1978, she won the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Tirra Lirra by the River, and again in 1980 for The Impersonators, which also won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. In 1987 her story collection, Stories from the Warm Zone, won the Age Book of the Year award.

Jessica Anderson died in July 2010, at the age of ninety-three.

Carmen Callil founded Virago Press in 1972 and later became managing director of Chatto & Windus and the Hogarth Press. Since 1995 she has worked as a writer and critic. She is the author of Bad Faith: A Forgotten History of Family and Fatherland, and co-author, with Colm Tü¾Œ¶˜¼ibü¾™†”¼n, of The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English since 1950.

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ISBN 13	9781612193885
ISBN 10	1612193889
Title	Tirra Lirra By The River
Author	Jessica Anderson
Series	Neversink
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Melville House Publishing
Year published	2015-01-27
Number of pages	144
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