'Sydney, 1942
'Recently orphaned, Angel Martin moves into a boarding house populated by an assortment of eccentric and colourful characters. She’s befriended by the gregarious Winifred Varnham – a vision in exotic fabrics – and the numerically gifted Barnaby Grange. But not everyone is kind and her scrimping landlady, Missus Potts, is only the beginning of Angel’s troubles.
'Angel refuses to accept her fate and focusses her affections on her two maiden aunts. Despite their resistance, she is determined to forge a sense of belonging. Her visits to the aunts’ house on the Bay soon expand her world in ways she couldn’t have imagined.
'Elizabeth Stead brings her classic subversive wit and personal insight to this nostalgic portrait of wartime Sydney. In Angel Martin, she has created a singular and irrepressible character. A true original.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
'In the early 1990s Elizabeth Stead published a story called Knitting Bridget Emily about a widower who was knitting body parts to replace those of his late wife. He had her heart in a biscuit tin that he planned to insert into the finished knitted body.' (Introduction)
'In the early 1990s Elizabeth Stead published a story called Knitting Bridget Emily about a widower who was knitting body parts to replace those of his late wife. He had her heart in a biscuit tin that he planned to insert into the finished knitted body.' (Introduction)
