Ladies' Rest and Writing Room

Kim Kelly

Ladies' Rest and Writing Room
Format
CD-Audio
Publisher
Bolinda Publishing
Country
Australia
Published
28 March 2024
ISBN
9781038668394

Ladies’ Rest and Writing Room

Kim Kelly

Christmastime, 1922. Sydney is at last waking from the nightmare of the Great War, and rekindled hope brings a burst of new energy to the city.

Dotty Bluebrook does not share the shift in mood. Drifting through her rich-girl routine of shopping and social engagements, she is secretly mourning the loss of a forbidden lover who went off to fight and never returned. He's been missing in action for four long years - and she's losing her mind.

Clarinda Littlemore is grieving losses of a more concrete kind. Her beloved father and brothers are unquestionably dead - leaving her and her mother in poverty. Taking a job in the Ladies' Rest and Writing Room of an elegant department store, Clarinda is craving a life beyond filling inkpots and replenishing stationery supplies.

One hot summer morning, when Dotty sweeps into the rose-pink haven of the writing room to pen a letter to her non-existent man, Clarinda watches her, and a recognition flares with resentment at her privilege. But soon she senses that Dotty's in some desperate trouble of her own and, with recognition ever deepening, Clarinda takes a chance to rescue them both.

Winner of the 20/40 Finlay Lloyd Prize

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