Tirra Lirra by the River

By Jessica Anderson

Book Overview

Nora Porteous, a witty, ambitious woman from Brisbane, returns to her childhood home at age 70. Her life has taken her from a failed marriage in Sydney to freedom in London; she forged a modest career... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140069453
• ISBN13: 9780140069457
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

An appealing favourite

One of the few books I have re-read in adulthood, having discovered it in late teenagehood. Very good indeed. Its descption of life for a woman seeking independence in Sydney on the post-WW2 period is excellent, as is the exposition of aging, and the bitter-sweetness of an expat returning to a former home. In the scenes in Brisbane suburbia you can almost smell the frangipani and mango trees!

You'll want to discover this wonderful writer.

Jessica Anderson deserves a place alongside the equally masterful Alice Munro. Her prose is flawless, compelling, simple and elegant, and it serves a finely crafted story and page-turning plot. I don't know why Anderson is not better known, but I certainly feel lucky that I found her.