The seamstress / Romance fiction, Australian. Waverley Library Award for Literature Nomination 2007. Dementia Mothers and daughters. Scots. Friendship Mothers and daughters Scots Families Alzheimer's disease
Wooller, Geraldine.
The seamstress / Geraldine Wooller. - Crawley, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, c2007. - 227 p. ; 21 cm. - New writing . - New writing. .
Novel.
"Jo narrates the story of her strong, passionate mother, WIlla, whose gradual slide into dementia shifts them into a new and difficult relationship. Willa's life since arriving in Australia from Scotland as a young woman is re-created in vignettes: her spectacularly wrong choice in husband, the eccentriticites of her family, the community of friends that sustain her, and her enduring capacity for joy. And in the telling, Jo also confronts her own life choices as a woman addicted to 'being perpetually worried about something or other. And certainly addicted to love.'" - back cover.
9781920694937 (pbk.) 1920694935 (pbk.)
UWA Press, C/o The University of Western Australia, M419, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009
2007276557
GBA796077 bnb
013619793 Uk
Romance fiction, Australian.
Waverley Library Award for Literature Nomination 2007.
Dementia--Patients.
Mothers and daughters.
Scots.
Friendship--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Australia--Fiction.
Dementia--Patients--Fiction.
Scots--Australia--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Alzheimer's disease--Fiction.
Dementia--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Australia.
Australia.
Australian fiction (Australia)
Domestic fiction.
Love stories
Love stories
Fiction.
Love stories.
Australian fiction
PR9619.4.W682 / S42 2007
A823.4
The seamstress / Geraldine Wooller. - Crawley, W.A. : University of Western Australia Press, c2007. - 227 p. ; 21 cm. - New writing . - New writing. .
Novel.
"Jo narrates the story of her strong, passionate mother, WIlla, whose gradual slide into dementia shifts them into a new and difficult relationship. Willa's life since arriving in Australia from Scotland as a young woman is re-created in vignettes: her spectacularly wrong choice in husband, the eccentriticites of her family, the community of friends that sustain her, and her enduring capacity for joy. And in the telling, Jo also confronts her own life choices as a woman addicted to 'being perpetually worried about something or other. And certainly addicted to love.'" - back cover.
9781920694937 (pbk.) 1920694935 (pbk.)
UWA Press, C/o The University of Western Australia, M419, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009
2007276557
GBA796077 bnb
013619793 Uk
Romance fiction, Australian.
Waverley Library Award for Literature Nomination 2007.
Dementia--Patients.
Mothers and daughters.
Scots.
Friendship--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Australia--Fiction.
Dementia--Patients--Fiction.
Scots--Australia--Fiction.
Friendship--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Alzheimer's disease--Fiction.
Dementia--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Australia.
Australia.
Australian fiction (Australia)
Domestic fiction.
Love stories
Love stories
Fiction.
Love stories.
Australian fiction
PR9619.4.W682 / S42 2007
A823.4