Tirra Lirra By The River by Jessica Anderson Macmillan Australia, 141 pp, $8.95 hb, 0 333 25133 4In Tirra Lirra by the River, an elderly woman, Norah Porteou, returns to live in her childhood home in Brisbane after forty years as a ‘London Australian’. The house is empty, so is her life. Norah is a ‘woman whose name is of no consequence’. She is sensitive, vaguely artistic, slightly s ... (read more)