Palomino

Elizabeth Jolley

Macmillan, 1984 - Architecture - 260 pages

Elizabeth Jolley's first novel is an unusual, haunting story of the deep relationship between two women, set against the solitude, beauty and harshness of the West Australian landscape.

Contents

• Section 1: 1
• Section 2: 3
• Section 3: 55
• Section 4: 113
• Section 5: 131
• Section 6: 137
• Section 7: 144
• Section 8: 145
• Section 9: 155
• Section 10: 171
• Section 11: 185
• Section 12: 233
• Section 13: 257

About the author

Elizabeth Jolley was born Monica Elizabeth Knight in Birmingham, England on June 4, 1923. She was educated privately until age 11, when she was sent to Sibford School, a Quaker boarding school. At 17 she began training as nurse in London and was exposed firsthand to the horrors of World War II. She emigrated to Australia in 1959 with her husband and their three children. Before becoming a full-time author, she had numerous jobs including nursing, housecleaning, and farming. She published her first book of short stories, Five Acre Virgin and Other Stories, in 1976, and her first novel, Palomino, in 1980. Her other works included The Newspaper of Claremont Street, Mr. Scobie's Riddle, The Well, My Father's Moon, Miss Peabody's Inheritance, Foxybaby, and The Sugar Mother. She died on February 13, 2007 at the age of 83.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Palomino; UQP paperbacks : Fiction; UQP. Fiction
• Author: Elizabeth Jolley
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Macmillan, 1984
• ISBN: 0702219487, 9780702219481
• Length: 260 pages
• Subjects: Architecture / General; Fiction / General; Social Science / LGBTQ+ Studies / Lesbian Studies; Social Science / Sociology / General