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From Castlecrag to Notting Hill

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June 2013, no. 352

Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John by Helen Trinca

Text Publishing, $32.99 pb, 280 pp, 9781921922848

From Castlecrag to Notting Hill

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June 2013, no. 352

My Swedish neighbour is rebuilding. From my back garden I overheard her Australian builder loudly introducing her to a tradesman named Hans. ‘Now, we’re for it,’ he chortled. ‘It’ll be talk, talk, talk, no stopping you now.’ As I hung out the washing, I reflected that the Australian nervousness around ‘Continentals’ that Madeleine St John details so deliciously in her novel about 1950s Sydney, The Women in Black (1993), still resonates in the twenty-first century. 

Sylvia Martin reviews 'Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John', Helen Trinca

Madeleine: A Life of Madeleine St John

by Helen Trinca

Text Publishing, $32.99 pb, 280 pp, 9781921922848

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