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"""The book I most often give as a gift to cheer people up."" --Hilary Mantel ""A deceptively smart comic gem."" -The New York Times Book Review ""Witty and delicious."" -People The women in black, so named for the"

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A witty little gem of a tale... instantly transports readers back to a more genteel era. --Kirkus A delicious book. Funny and happy, it's like the breath of youth again. --Jane Gardam Seductive, hilarious, brilliantly observed, this novel shimmers with wit and tenderness. --Helen Garner, author of Monkey Grip and The Spare Room There is something special about...The Women in Black. St John's tone is... a joy: brisk, perfectly managed and, in its disdain for clutter, oddly life-affirming. She casts an airy spell with the deftness of her prose, which moves gracefully, swiftly and with perfect manners... [St John] conjures a Sydney on the cusp of modern promise; a place where her characters can meet the future with a bright face and step out of the past like an old dress, where limits can be lightly shaken off. --Delia Falconer, Australian A highly sophisticated work, full of funny, sharp and subtle observations...a small masterpiece. --Sunday Times (UK) A little gem... shot through with old-fashioned innocence and sly humour. --Vogue

An exceptional writer. Those of us who knew her at Sydney University back in the late 1950s are still trying to forgive ourselves that we never guessed what she would become. --Clive James Seductive, hilarious, brilliantly observed, this novel shimmers with wit and tenderness. --Helen Garner, author of Monkey Grip and The Spare Room There is something special about...The Women in Black. St John's tone is... a joy: brisk, perfectly managed and, in its disdain for clutter, oddly life-affirming. She casts an airy spell with the deftness of her prose, which moves gracefully, swiftly and with perfect manners... [St John] conjures a Sydney on the cusp of modern promise; a place where her characters can meet the future with a bright face and step out of the past like an old dress, where limits can be lightly shaken off. --Delia Falconer, Australian A little gem... shot through with old-fashioned innocence and sly humour. --Vogue A delicious book. Funny and happy, it's like the breath of youth again. --Jane Gardam A highly sophisticated work, full of funny, sharp and subtle observations...a small masterpiece. --Sunday Times (UK)

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Madeleine St. John was born in Sydney in 1941. In 1965 she moved to the United States and attended Stanford, and later moved to England to attend Cambridge University. In 1993, she published her debut novel in Australia, The Women in Black. She is author of three other novels including The Essence of the Thing, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. St. John was the first Australian woman to receive this honor. Madeleine St. John died in 2006.

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