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  • Ladies’ Rest and Writing Room

  • By: Kim Kelly
  • Narrated by: Caroline Lee
  • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Ladies’ Rest and Writing Room

By: Kim Kelly
Narrated by: Caroline Lee
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Christmastime, 1922. Sydney is at last waking from the nightmare of the Great War, and rekindled hope brings a burst of new energy to the city.

Dotty Bluebrook does not share the shift in mood. Drifting through her rich-girl routine of shopping and social engagements, she is secretly mourning the loss of a forbidden lover who went off to fight and never returned. He’s been missing in action for four long years – and she’s losing her mind. Clarinda Littlemore is grieving losses of a more concrete kind. Her beloved father and brothers are unquestionably dead – leaving her and her mother in poverty. Taking a job in the Ladies’ Rest and Writing Room of an elegant department store, Clarinda is craving a life beyond filling inkpots and replenishing stationery supplies.

One hot summer morning, when Dotty sweeps into the rose-pink haven of the writing room to pen a letter to her non-existent man, Clarinda watches her, and a recognition flares with resentment at her privilege. But soon she senses that Dotty’s in some desperate trouble of her own and, with recognition ever deepening, Clarinda takes a chance to rescue them both.

*Winner of the 20/40 Finlay Lloyd Prize*

©2024 Kim Kelly (P)2024 Bolinda Publishing

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'Kim Kelly’s spry and endearing period novella … offers an elegant tonic for grief.' (The Sydney Morning Herald)

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