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The Vera Wright Trilogy

(2010)
(A book in the Vera Wright Trilogy series)
An omnibus of novels by

 
 
This moving masterpiece by one of Australia's leading novelists - now in its entirety - inaugurates Persea's series of Elizabeth Jolley revivals. Set in 1940s wartime England, the trilogy follows young Vera, who leaves her cultivated Midlands home to become a nurse in a military hospital and is catapulted into adulthood through unorthodox love entanglements with both men and women, two illegitimate children, and finally emigration to Australia, where, from her new vantage point - now a doctor and writer - she looks back on her life's journey. Combining the beauty of Virginia Woolf with the spare, heartbreaking insightfulness of Jean Rhys, the trilogy is both a literary tour de force and an accessible, universal portrait of a woman in search of sustaining love.


Genre: Literary Fiction

Praise for this book

"The Vera Wright Trilogy stands out as the most ambitious and most accomplished work in Elizabeth Jolley's oeuvre." - J M Coetzee


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