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Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 The Animal Shop
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'Melbourne author  Oriel Gray has used the skills she developed as a playwright and radio and television writer to good effect in her first novel, The Animal Shop (Penguin, 235pp., S)2.99). It is a heart-warming story full of incident and lively characters and a good deal of humour. The eponymous animal shop is actually an opportunity shop established to raise money to help abandoned animals. Most of those concerned are West Heidelberg battlers, some helping in the shop, others regular customers looking for bargains. The main characters, Pat and Louise. come from different backgrounds. but they have in common broken manages and compassion for others. Among their concerns are Mrs Collins, who is regularly bashed up by her psychotic son; Man-n. mother of three by different fathers and about to have a fourth; Cherry. a deserted wife whose handsome blue-eyed son manages to pull the wool over most people's eyes, and Dorothy Halstrom, faced with the agonising prospect of having to sell her once stately home. In many ways this is an old-fashioned book, with Just enough over-dramatisation of life to maintain interest without ever degenerating into a soapie. ' (Stan Barkley review : The Canberra Times 17 June 1990, 18)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1990 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 235p.
      ISBN: 0140126945

Works about this Work

Opportunity Knocks in Suburbia David Carter , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 July 1990; (p. rev 6)

— Review of The Animal Shop Oriel Gray , 1990 single work novel ; Uneasy Truces 1990 anthology short story
The Latest in Paperbacks Graham Clark , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 7 July 1990; (p. 6)

— Review of The Animal Shop Oriel Gray , 1990 single work novel
Kindly Look at Melbourne Battlers Stan Barney , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 June 1990; (p. 18)

— Review of The Animal Shop Oriel Gray , 1990 single work novel ; Two Brothers, Running : Seventeen Stories and a Movie Morris Lurie , 1990 selected work short story
The Difficulty of Class Consciousness Jane Stephens , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 120 1990; (p. 10)

— Review of The Animal Shop Oriel Gray , 1990 single work novel
Literature Imitates the Art of Television A. P. Riemer , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 May 1990; (p. 78)

— Review of Play with Knives Jennifer Maiden , 1990 single work novel ; The Animal Shop Oriel Gray , 1990 single work novel
Women's Lore: a Practical Feminism Judith Johnston , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , December vol. 50 no. 4 1990; (p. 535-538)

— Review of A Writing Life : Interviews with Australian Women Writers 1990 selected work interview biography ; The Animal Shop Oriel Gray , 1990 single work novel ; Marriages Amy Witting , 1990 selected work short story
Soap `Washes' Unevenly Peter Pierce , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 19 June vol. 112 no. 5723 1990; (p. 144)

— Review of Taking Shelter Jessica Anderson , 1989 single work novel ; The Animal Shop Oriel Gray , 1990 single work novel
Brother Jack of all Traits Simon Hughes , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Herald , 17 June 1990; (p. 32)

— Review of Building on Sand David Parker , 1988 single work novel ; The Animal Shop Oriel Gray , 1990 single work novel
Literature Imitates the Art of Television A. P. Riemer , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 26 May 1990; (p. 78)

— Review of Play with Knives Jennifer Maiden , 1990 single work novel ; The Animal Shop Oriel Gray , 1990 single work novel
The Difficulty of Class Consciousness Jane Stephens , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 120 1990; (p. 10)

— Review of The Animal Shop Oriel Gray , 1990 single work novel
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