Edwin and his wife, Cecilia, are parted for a year while Cecilia pursues a medical fellowship, and Edwin soon finds his life complicated when his new neighbors--a widow and her twentyish daughter--move in uninvited

The Sugar Mother

Literature & Fiction

Jolley, Elizabeth

British & Irish

Harpercollins

My Father's Moon

Veronica White, a nurse attending a medical conference in New York, recalls her experience as an unwed mother and her affair with a much older man

Cabin Fever: A Novel

Edwin and his wife, Cecilia, are parted for a year while Cecilia pursues a medical fellowship, and Edwin soon finds his life complicated when his new neighbors--a widow and her twentyish daughter--move in uninvited

HarperCollins, Publishers

Fleeing her constricted home life, Veronica Wright becomes a nurse, caring for the casualties from Normandy and becoming infatuated with a philandering doctor

A companion volume or sequel to "My Father's Moon". World War II has recently finished and the narrator is a hospital nurse somewhere in England. She's been having an affair with one of the surgeons, and is now pregnant. When the doctor dies, she leaves the hospital and takes a series of jobs.

Cabin Fever

Perennial

Short stories portray commonplace characters coping with unexpected situations

Woman In A Lampshade

Penguin Australia

A black comedy, this novel deals with a group of people in the care of Matron Price who has two saints instead of one to decorate her main entrance.

Mr. Scobie's Riddle

Penguin??Books

Mr. Scobie's admission to a nursing home offers a severe challenge to its domineering proprietress, Matron Hyacinth Price

A lonely, middle-aged Englishwoman, bound to her bedridden mother and her clerical job, becomes enthralled by her correspondence with Australian novelist Diana Hopewell and by the novel that Diana is writing in her letters

Miss Peabody's Inheritance

Penguin

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Books by Jolley, Elizabeth

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The Sugar Mother

My Father's Moon

Cabin Fever: A Novel

The Sugar Mother

My Father's Moon

Cabin Fever

Woman In A Lampshade

Mr. Scobie's Riddle

Mr. Scobie's Riddle

Miss Peabody's Inheritance