Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop: Text Classics
By Amy Witting
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Isobel Callaghan is struggling to make a career as a writer in Sydney. She is isolated, poor and hungry, and fears she's going mad. Leaving her room in a boarding house in search of food, she has a breakdown on the way to the corner shop.
Waking in hospital, Isobel learns that she will be confined to a sanatorium in the Blue Mountains. There, among the motley assortment of patients, and with the aid of great works of
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Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop: Text Classics
9781925095647
by Amy Witting
Text Publishing
25 February 2015
EPUB
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336
756.1 KB
English
Awards
Winner of Age Book of the Year 2000 AU
Author Biography
Amy Witting was born in Annandale, an inner suburb of Sydney, in 1918. She attended Sydney University, then taught French and English in state schools. Beginning late in life she published six novels, including THE VISIT, I FOR ISOBEL, ISOBEL ON THE WAY TO THE CORNER SHOP and MARIA’S WAR; two collections of short stories; two books of verse, TRAVEL DIARY and BEAUTY IS THE STRAW; and her COLLECTED POEMS.
Witting was awarded the 1993 Patrick White Prize. ISOBEL ON THE WAY TO THE CORNER SHOP won the Age Book of the Year Award.
Amy Witting died in 2001.