Elizabeth Troop

Auteur van Woolworth Madonna

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(eng) She worked in London as a bookseller and in publishing before marrying Canadian writer and journalist Robert Troop and living in Canada for 2 years. She is a radio playwright and feature-writer and her short stories have appeared in Winters Tales 22 and 25 and the Arts Council anthologies as well as other magazines. Her other novels include A Fine Country (1969) and Slipping Away (1979) and her latest novel Darling Daughters will be published in 1980.

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Woolworth Madonna (1976) 2 exemplaren

Slipping Away (1979) 1 exemplaar

Seven Deadly Sins: A Collection of New Fiction (1985) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar

A fine country (1969) 1 exemplaar

Darling Daughters (1981) 1 exemplaar

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Geslacht: female
Geboorteplaats: Lancashire, England, UK
Ontwarringsbericht: She worked in London as a bookseller and in publishing before marrying Canadian writer and journalist Robert Troop and living in Canada for 2 years. She is a radio playwright and feature-writer and her short stories have appeared in Winters Tales 22 and 25 and the Arts Council anthologies as well as other magazines. Her other novels include A Fine Country (1969) and Slipping Away (1979) and her latest novel Darling Daughters will be published in 1980.

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Woolworth Madonna door Elizabeth Troop

If she chucked herself into that brown river..all that would happen would be a line or two in the local rag"
By sally tarbox on 28 January 2018
Format: Hardcover
Published in 1976, this short (107p) novel follows a nameless London wife and mother-of-three; with a rough and ready husband, and three demanding offspring - a critical pre-reen, a baby in nappies and a middle one with learning difficulties - the mother retreats into a world of anti-depressants and dreams; classical music and art, so far removed from her dingy, cash-strapped life in a condemned house, as the family await their move to a high-rise...

And then into their life comes Edward, a journalist from a privileged background, who sees them as material for his writing. While the sections on the mother are related in the 3rd person, we glimpse Edward's true thoughts in the snippets of his journals whiich intercut the text - a combination of pity, affection, exasperation and desire...

Conjures up a time and a place quite vividly; and the helpless, hopeless feelings of someone stuck in a world she doesn't like.… (meer)