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Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill

Helen Hodgman

  • awardWinner, Somerset Maugham Award, United Kingdom, 1978
  • Jill and her dad are happy enough after her mother dies. Theirs is a simple life in the outback, far from the big city where a coathanger is being built across a sparkling harbour.

    Until Jack arrives at their door one evening, and steps inside to find the skinny, wild-looking child sitting with her grim-faced father. It’s the start of all Jill’s problems.

    ‘Absence makes the heart grow fonder,’ threatens Jack, as he marches off to war. And he’s right, in a way—but this is no ordinary romance.

    Spanning the period from the Depression to the freewheeling ‘60s, Helen Hodgman’s award-winning second book is a masterpiece, a twisted fairytale told with her characteristic dark wit.

    About the Author

    Helen Hodgman was the author of the novels Blue Skies (1976), Jack and Jill (1978; winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), Broken Words (1988; winner of the Christina Stead Prize), Passing Remarks (1996), Waiting for Matindi (1998) and The Bad Policeman (2001). She died in June, 2022.

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    Extent:
    208pp
    Format:
    Paperback
    Text publication date:
    29 August 2011
    ISBN:
    9781921758355
    AU Price:
    $29.95
    NZ Price:
    $37.00
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    • Jack and Jill
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      ISBN: 9781921834370
      29 August 2011
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