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      The Well

      by Elizabeth Jolley
      Published
      Nov 1986
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      Miss Hester Harper, middle-aged and eccentric, brings Katherine into her emotionally impoverished life. Together they sew, cook gourmet dishes for two, run the farm, make music and throw dirty dishes down the well. One night, driving along the deserted track that leads to the farm, they run into a mysterious creature. They heave the body from the roo bar and dump it into the farm's deep well. But the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and, most disturbing of all, the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farther away she gets from Hester. A twentieth-century Australian classic, The Well is a haunting and wryly humorous tale of memory, desire and loneliness.

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      Sep 1987 Penguin ISBN13 9780140089011 ISBN10 0140089012
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      First Edition Nov 1986 Viking ISBN13 9780670811038 ISBN10 0670811033
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