The Well: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1986 (Popular Penguins)

Author(s): Elizabeth Jolley

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Driving one night along the deserted track that leads to the farm, Miss Hester Harper and Katherine run into a mysterious creature. They dump the body into the farm's deep well but the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester.A twentieth-century Australian classic, The Well is a haunting and wryly humorous tale of memory, desire and loneliness.


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Written by one of Australia's greatest authors and later turned into a movie, The Well is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel about two women from different generations and the accident that changes them. Set in remote Western Australia, the suspenseful and haunting novel is one of Jolley's best. Elisa, Book Grocer

General Fields

  • : 9780143202769
  • : PENGUIN AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
  • : PENGUIN AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
  • : 0.15
  • : May 2009
  • : 178mm X 111mm
  • : June 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 256
  • : Paperback
  • : Elizabeth Jolley