Elizabeth Jolleys novels
The most highly visible Australian woman writer in the last twenty years has been Elizabeth Jolley. ... Jolleys work breaks established boundaries in many ways. ... Old people, in Jolleys fiction,usually described as displaced persons, are persistently seeking a true belonging. ... Jolleys immigrants are different from those peopled in other writers alien soil. ... In form, Jolleys work is not likely to please the reader who is nostalgic for realist conventions.