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Adaptation of The Last Crop Elizabeth Jolley , 1983 single work short story
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 The Last Crop
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This television adaptation of an Elizabeth Jolley short story is told from the perspective of a confused teenage girl who lives with her mother, Ann Sweeney, and delinquent brother in suburban Sydney. Ann's job as a cleaner in a luxury complex enables her to let her friends stay in the apartments when the owners are on holiday, allowing them to briefly experience the life of the rich. However, the social whirl that this creates cannot distract her from the unresolved issues in her life, namely her children and her stubborn father, who won't give up his farm despite ongoing health problems. When he dies, she inherits the farm but, in order to save it from being sold to the mining company that employed her father, she has to sell her own house to the country. Ann then has to find some ingenious way to carry out her father's wish that there be one last crop.

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First known date: 1991

Works about this Work

TV Film First in a Crop of Jolley Stories Ron Banks , 1991 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 22 August 1991; (p. 43)
Elizabeth Jolley Story Makes Transition to Splendid Television Barbara Hooks , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 7 August 1991; (p. 14)
The World of Elizabeth Jolley Diana Simmonds , 1990 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 2 October vol. 112 no. 5739 1990; (p. 100-101)
The World of Elizabeth Jolley Diana Simmonds , 1990 single work criticism biography
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 2 October vol. 112 no. 5739 1990; (p. 100-101)
Elizabeth Jolley Story Makes Transition to Splendid Television Barbara Hooks , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 7 August 1991; (p. 14)
TV Film First in a Crop of Jolley Stories Ron Banks , 1991 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 22 August 1991; (p. 43)
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