The aunts' house

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Label

The aunts' house

Statement of responsibility

Eilzabeth Stead

Title variation

aunts house

Creator

• trueStead, Elizabeth, 1932-

Author

• trueStead, Elizabeth, 1932-

Subject

• Families -- Australia | Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
• trueMothers -- Death
• trueOrphans
• Orphans -- Fiction
• Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
• trueSydney, New South Wales
• World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia -- Fiction
• trueAunts
• Aunts -- Fiction
• trueAustralia -- History -- 20th century
• Australian fiction
• trueBelonging
• Belonging (Social psychology) -- Fiction
• trueBoarding houses
• Boardinghouses -- Australia -- Fiction
• trueEccentrics and eccentricities
• Fate and fatalism -- Fiction
• trueLandlords
• trueMental illness

Genre

• Australian fiction
• Fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Recently orphaned, Angel Martin moves into a boarding house populated by an assortment of eccentric and colourful characters. She's befriended by the gregarious Winifred Varnham, a vision in exotic fabrics, and the numerically gifted Barnaby Grange. But not everyone is kind and her scrimping landlady, Missus Potts, is only the beginning of Angel's troubles. Angel refuses to accept her fate. She is determined to forge a sense of belonging despite rejection from her two maiden aunts, Clara and Elsa, who blame Angel's mother for their brother's death. Her Sunday visits to the aunts house by the Bay expand her world in ways she couldn't have imagined

Storyline

• trueCharacter-driven

Tone

• trueStrong sense of place

Writing style

• trueWitty

Character

• trueWell-developed
• trueSpirited

Cataloging source

ANL

Dewey number

A823.4

Illustrations

photographs

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult