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'A self-absorbed young musician comes as a pupil-boarder to the house of an 'old European' family. Gradually his life is taken over and consumed, seemingly, by dark, mysterious forces within as much as outside himself. Milk and Honey is a strangely haunting novel. While much of what we have come to expect and admire in Elizabeth Jolley's work is powerfully present — vivid and diverse characters, pathos, humour and acute perceptions of people and their situations — it is in many ways quite unlike anything she has previously written. A work of gothic proportions, Milk and Honey is an astonishing tapestry of character and incident that surprises and yet never fails to convince.'
(Source: Booktopia)
Adaptations
- y Milk and Honey 1997 Z844721 1997 single work drama
Affiliation Notes
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Writing Disability in Australia:
Type of disability Disfigured hands, undisclosed mental impairment. Type of character Primary and secondary. Point of view First person.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Elizabeth Jolley : A Cross-Cultural Life in Writing
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , vol. 2 no. 2010;'Elizabeth Jolley is one of Australia's most significant writers: she published some two dozen books of fiction, essays and radio dramas, won every major Australian literary award, received four honorary doctorates, was awarded the Order of Australia for service to Australian Literature in 1988, and was named an Australian 'National Living Treasure' in 1997.
Her career has its roots in the UK, the place of her birth, schooling and early marriage. In 1959 she travelled with her three children and her husband to Perth, Western Australia, where Leonard Jolley took up a position as foundation Librarian of the University of Western Australia. She brought with her a trunk full of unpublished/rejected manuscripts which provided the initial materials from which she developed her published fictions and essays in Australia.
This article explores the institutional frameworks in Australia which enabled Jolley - a constant writer from childhood - to develop, in David Carter's phrase, 'a career in writing' from the mid-1970s onwards. It argues that Jolley rewrote her foundation manuscripts (written in another country) both to imagine Australian lives and to conform to Australian publishers' requirements. In doing so, it traces how the fiction and essays translate the experience of migration/exile, often thematised through the recurrent image of being 'on the edge,' into the particular and powerful ethic of love that informs Jolley's writing.' (Author's abstract)
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Shellshocks and Aftershocks : Scars of the Holocaust Problematizing Identity in Elizabeth Jolley's Milk and Honey
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literature : Identity, Representation and Belonging 2007; (p. 1-7) Women's Writing in English : India and Australia 2008; (p. 165-170) -
Milk and Honey : Elizabeth Jolley (1923-2007)
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Classics : Fifty Great Writers and Their Celebrated Works 2007; (p. 216-220) -
Songs of a Wayfarer
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Heat , no. 14 (New Series) 2007; (p. 45-62) -
'As One Whom His Mother Comforteth, So Will I Comfort You : Elizabeth Jolley's Catalogue of Consolation
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 66 no. 1 2006; (p. 52-65)
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[Review] Miss Peabody's Inheritance [et al]
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 18 October 1985; (p. 1173)
— Review of Miss Peabody's Inheritance 1983 single work novel ; Milk and Honey : A Novel 1984 single work novel ; Loving Daughters 1984 single work novel ; Annie Magdalene 1985 single work novel ; Bearded Ladies : Stories 1984 selected work short story poetry ; Palomino 1980 single work novel ; Mr Scobie's Riddle 1983 single work novel -
A Melancholy Novel, Darkly Disturbing
1984
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 3 November 1984; (p. 19)
— Review of Palomino 1980 single work novel ; Milk and Honey : A Novel 1984 single work novel -
Awaiting the Next Sick Surprise
1984
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 13 October 1984; (p. 38)
— Review of Palomino 1980 single work novel ; Milk and Honey : A Novel 1984 single work novel -
The Grotesque and the Innocent
1984
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , December no. 97 1984; (p. 66-68)
— Review of Palomino 1980 single work novel ; Milk and Honey : A Novel 1984 single work novel ; The Bush Soldiers 1984 single work novel ; Bearded Ladies : Stories 1984 selected work short story poetry -
The Sullen Novelists : New Australian Fiction
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 29 no. 3 1985; (p. 77-79)
— Review of The Island 1984 single work novel ; Shallows 1984 single work novel ; Crooks 1984 single work novel ; Milk and Honey : A Novel 1984 single work novel ; Bearded Ladies : Stories 1984 selected work short story poetry ; The Man Who Stayed Below 1984 single work novel ; Last Ferry to Manly 1984 single work novel ; The Chinaman 1984 single work novel -
The Writer's Voice
1984
single work
column
— Appears in: Fremantle Arts Centre Broadsheet , November - December vol. 3 no. 6 1984; (p. 3-4) -
Babies Eat Their Lace: Elizabeth Jolley and the Slaughter of Decorum
2002
single work
criticism
— Appears in: After Electra : Rage, Grief and Hope in Twentieth-Century Fiction 2002; (p. 118-136, notes 194-195) -
'As One Whom His Mother Comforteth, So Will I Comfort You : Elizabeth Jolley's Catalogue of Consolation
2006
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 66 no. 1 2006; (p. 52-65) -
Songs of a Wayfarer
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Heat , no. 14 (New Series) 2007; (p. 45-62) -
Milk and Honey : Elizabeth Jolley (1923-2007)
2007
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Classics : Fifty Great Writers and Their Celebrated Works 2007; (p. 216-220)
Awards
- 1985 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Fiction