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form y separately published work icon The Dressmaker single work   film/TV  
Adaptation of The Dressmaker Rosalie Ham , 2000 single work novel
Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 The Dressmaker
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“You can’t keep anything secret here,” said the old woman. “Everybody knows everything about everyone but no one ever tittle tattles because then someone else’ll tell on them. But you don’t matter – it’s open slather on outcasts.”

'The Dressmaker is a bittersweet tragi-comedy about a glamorous young woman who returns, after many years in Europe, to her small home town in rural Australia in order to right some wrongs from the past. When Tilly comes home, she not only heals her ailing mother, but with her sewing machine, and haute couture style, transforms the women of the town in such a way that she gets sweet revenge on those who did her wrong. She also falls unexpectedly in love, which leads to her greatest loss, and her most destructive deed.' (Producer's abstract)

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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 22 January 2016; (p. 34)
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 August 2016; (p. 26)
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— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 6 January 2015;

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— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26-27 September 2015; (p. 8-9)

— Review of The Dressmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse , 2015 single work film/TV
The Dressmaker Review – A Batty, Fancy-frocked Revenge Story Luke Buckmaster , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 17 October 2015;

— Review of The Dressmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse , 2015 single work film/TV
Sharpened Tongue Cuts Close to Home Philippa Hawker , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 22 October 2015; (p. 35)

— Review of The Dressmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse , 2015 single work film/TV
Frivolous Fun Craig Mathieson , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 25 October 2015; (p. 10)

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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10 August 2013; (p. 36)
Back to the Outback Vicky Roach , 2013 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 August 2013; (p. 57)
Short Cuts Garry Maddox , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18 December 2014; (p. 30)
First in Best Dress Antimo Iannella , Matt Gilbertson , 2014 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 18 December 2014; (p. 33)
Our New Queens of the Desert are Dressed to Impress Vicky Roach , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 May 2015; (p. 5)
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