Lillian's Eden de Cheryl Adam

Lillian's Eden

Cheryl Adam

Cheryl Adam's Lillian's Eden takes the reader on a journey through rural post-war life in the midst of a family attempting to survive on a pittance. Lillian is confronted by her impecunious, philandering and violent husband but agrees to move from the farm that she has built up from scratch to the coastal town of Eden to look after Aunt Maggie. Aunt Maggie is a wonderfully drawn eccentric character but Lillian has to work out just how to make this relationship work. Cheryl Adam's novel reminds us of Ruth Park and Kylie Tennant with its raw richness.

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A cool breeze made sails out of the lace curtains, lifting them up to reveal an expanse of blue that married the sky on the horizon line. She watched a ship move into the frame of the small window. It worked its way through white caps, like a sock poking up and down in the suds of her washtub. Her eyes took on a far off look as the Bex powder kicked in and made life tolerable. How different everything had turned out from what she had dreamed. With their farm destroyed by fire, Lillian agrees to the demands of her husband to move to the coastal town of Eden, next door to his Aunt Maggie, to help look after her. Jugglingthe demands of caring for her children and managing two households, and stoically enduring her husband’s continued indiscretions, Lillian finds an unlikely ally in the feisty, eccentric Aunt.With wonderfully drawn characters reminiscent of Ruth Park and Kylie Tennant, Cheryl Adam brings to life the realities of rural Australia in the 1950s and highlights the endless demands made on women like Lillian. Exquisitely capturing Australian life in the postwar years, this rich, raw novel is also a joyous celebration of family and friendship.Lillian’s Eden shows that sometimes happiness can be found in the most unlikely of places.
Lillian’s Eden opens a magic door into 1950s rural Australia. It is an elegantly-paced, colourful excursion down memory lane, complete with money worries, murky family secrets, an eccentric old aunt, an abusive, adulterous husband, and a feisty, courageous wife. Tragedy, comedy, farce, tenderness, triumph – and grit.— Carmel Bird

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Preț: 116^.82 lei