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Published 25 February 2015
ISBN 9781922182715
Format Paperback
Extent 336pp
AU Price $14.95
NZ Price $17.99

Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop: Text Classics



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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 literature, she will confront the horrors of her past. But can she find a way to face the future?
Confronting and compassionate, profound and funny, the second Isobel Callaghan novel is every bit as brilliant as its much-loved predecessor. It confirmed Amy Witting as one of the finest Australian writers of her time. 

Published 25 February 2015
ISBN 9781922182715
Format Paperback
Extent 336pp
AU Price $14.95
NZ Price $17.99

Praise for Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop: Text Classics

'Her reflections on human nature are eloquently drawn, intimate, compassionate and witty.' Australian

PRH, PRH

'Amy Witting is comparable to Jean Rhys, but she has more starch, or vinegar. The effect is bracing.' New Yorker

PRH, PRH

'A beautifully but unobtrusively honed style, a marvellous ear for dialogue, a generous understanding of the complex waywardness of men and women.' Andrew Riemer

PRH, PRH

About the authors

Maria Takolander - Introducer

Maria Takolander is an award-winning Finnish-Australian fiction writer and poet. She is the inaugural winner of the Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley short-story prize, and her debut collection of short fiction, The Double (Text 2013), was a finalist for the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s ‘Best New Writing Award’. Maria is also the author of four books of poetry, the most recent of which, Trigger Warning (UQP 2021), won a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and was shortlisted for an Association for the Study of Australian Literature Gold Medal. As a public artist, her words can be found at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in Melbourne and in Geelong, where she lives with her husband and son.
portrait photo of Maria Takolander

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