Madeleine St John: 4 books

Alex and Andrew are friends. And Barbara...Barbara is a goddess. Here is the eternal triangle, the story of three people in an unhappy tangle of emotions, none able to articulate the precise quality of their longing and dissatisfaction. Are any of them truly interested in reaching the ‘paradise’...

Previously published as Women in Black now a major film directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Julia Ormond, Angourie Rice, Rachael Taylor, Ryan Corr, Shane Jacobson, Susie Porter, Alison McGirr, Noni Hazlehurst and Vincent Perez. At the very end of the Ladies’ Frocks Departments, past...

FINALMENTE ARRIVA IN ITALIA MADELEINE ST JOHN « Frizzante, sofisticato e originale.» The New York Times Book Review «Siamo negli anni Cinquanta, all'alba di un decennio ribelle, decisivo per le lotte di libertà e indipendenza delle donne. Leggere "Le signore in nero" significa...

Written by a superb novelist of contemporary manners, The Women in Black is a fairytale which illuminates the extraordinariness of ordinary lives. The women in black are run off their feet, what with the Christmas rush and the summer sales that follow. But it's Sydney in the 1950s, and there's...