Sugar Mother
Fremantle Arts Centre Press, $19.95 hb, 216 pp
Fiction
It's a wise child
by Margaret Harris •
Elizabeth Jolley strikes dread into her Australian reader in 1988 as she makes due acknowledgement of the auspices under which Sugar Mother was written:
I must thank the Australian Bicentennial authority for commissioning this hook as a contribution to the celebration of the Australian Bicentenary in 1988.
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