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''Emily Bronte had written this novel especially for her. For her benefit she had sat alone in her narrow bed in the parsonage, her lap desk on her knees, death all around her with that graveyard right next door, the cold wind from the moors behind rattling the windows...But who had Dove written her story for?'
'Dove is writing a novel for herself, for her mother and for their literary heroines. It describes the life of Ellis, an ordinary young woman of the 1960s troubled by secrets and gaps in her past.
'Having read Wuthering Heights to her dying mother, Dove finds she cannot shake off the influence of that singular novel: it has infected her like a disease. In grief's aftermath, she follows the story Wuthering Heights has inspired to discover more about Ellis, who has emerged from the pages of fiction herself - or has she? - to become a modern successful career woman.
'The Women's Pages is about the choices and compromises women make, about their griefs and losses, and about the cold aching spaces that are left when they disappear from the story. It explores the mysterious process of creativity, and the way stories are shaped and fiction is formed. Right up to its astonishing conclusion, The Women's Pages asserts the power of the reader's imagination, which can make the deepest desires and strangest dreams come true.' (Publication summary)
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Dedication: for my daughter
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also large print.
Works about this Work
- y The Women's Pages by Debra Adelaide Melbourne : CAE Book Group , 2017 12214881 2017 single work criticism
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Debra Adelaide, The Women's Pages
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 2 2016; (p. 265-267)
— Review of The Women's Pages 2015 single work novel -
What to Leave Out
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , February 2016;
— Review of Second Half First 2015 single work autobiography ; Eat First, Talk Later : A Memoir of Food, Family and Home 2015 single work biography ; The Women's Pages 2015 single work novel -
Review : The Women’s Pages
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , July vol. 95 no. 1 2015; (p. 22)
— Review of The Women's Pages 2015 single work novel -
Review : The Women's Pages
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , November 2015; (p. 42)
— Review of The Women's Pages 2015 single work novel
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The Women’s Pages by Debra Adelaide Review – Bend It like Brontë and Buttrose
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 28 October 2015;
— Review of The Women's Pages 2015 single work novel -
A Puzzle Box of Connected Lives
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 November 2015; (p. 20)
— Review of The Women's Pages 2015 single work novel -
Questions of Character in the Writing and Reading
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23 November 2015; (p. 35) The Saturday Age , 21-22 November 2015; (p. 29)
— Review of The Women's Pages 2015 single work novel -
Review : The Women's Pages
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Monthly , November no. 117 2015; (p. 64)
— Review of The Women's Pages 2015 single work novel -
Mothers and Daughters
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 376 2015; (p. 14)
— Review of The Women's Pages 2015 single work novel - y The Women's Pages by Debra Adelaide Melbourne : CAE Book Group , 2017 12214881 2017 single work criticism
Awards
- 2016 longlisted Kibble Literary Awards — Nita Kibble Literary Award
- 2016 longlisted The Stella Prize