Cirrus@Austlit

This documentary explores the imaginative world of Australian novelist Elizabeth Jolley. It combines readings, dramatised segments, and witty and playful interviews in which Jolley talks about the craft and practical problems of writing and about her fictional treatment of old age, women's relationships, exile, and displacement. Dramatic sequences bring to life Jolley's unforgettable characters, including the funny, sad, and/or bizarre worlds created in such works as Woman in a Lampshade, Milk and Honey, Miss Peabody's Inheritance, Mr Scobie's Riddle, and Palamino.