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Harry White is a violent alcoholic and a patient at Kilkala, a mental hospital. After six years, Harry is ready to face the world again – although he has no desire to return to his wife; it is her sister Julia whom he had really loved.

What Harry does not know is that Julia has an inborn fear of the mentally ill, and fights off his advances with a carving knife.

For Harry, this is the crisis-point of his life: can he surmount the effect of this act of violence and convince the authorities of his sanity? Or is he to be condemned to live his life in faceless oblivion?

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Notes

  • Dedication: For Betty and Lindsay Bloomfield for one reason and another.
  • Author's note: Kilkalla is not modelled on any existing branch of the Department of Mental Hygiene. To eliminate such confusion I have employed only generalized statements as to the detailed nature of the work carried on there, emphasizing only that it is experimental. The characters in this work are fictitious, having no relationship to any real person, living or dead."

Affiliation Notes

  • Writing Disability in Australia

    Type of disability Depression.
    Type of character Primary.
    Point of view Third person.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • London,
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      England,
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Cassell ,       1962 .
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      Extent: 214p.
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Melbourne, Victoria,: Cassell ,       1962 .
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      Extent: 214p.
      Edition info: 2nd edition
      Note/s:
      • Second edition December 1962 (verso t.p.).
    • London,
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      England,
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      United Kingdom (UK),
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      Western Europe, Europe,      :       Corgi Books ,       1964 .
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    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Untapped , 2021 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9781922749154
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Brio Books ; Untapped , 2022 .
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      Extent: 304p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 30 August 2022.
      ISBN: 9781761281174
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Works about this Work

The Four Careers of George Turner Bruce Gillespie , 2009 single work bibliography
— Appears in: Chained to the Alien : The Best of Australian Science Fiction Review 2009; (p. 40-42)
y separately published work icon George Turner : A Life Judith Raphael Buckrich , Carlton South : Melbourne University Press , 1999 Z554074 1999 single work biography
Common Threads in Old and Young Writers Peter Davis , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 12 October 1988; (p. 39)
Visions of Conflict : The Novels of George Turner Frank Kellaway , 1982 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , May no. 87 1982; (p. 9-13)
A Novel Chronicle D. R. Burns , 1964 single work review
— Appears in: Prospect , vol. 7 no. 1 1964; (p. 27-29)
— Review of The Tilted Cross Hal Porter , 1961 single work novel ; The Well Dressed Explorer Thea Astley , 1962 single work novel ; The Cupboard Under the Stairs George Turner , 1962 single work novel ; Tourmaline Randolph Stow , 1963 single work novel ; The Hollow Woodheap David Forrest , 1962 single work novel
Miles Franklin Award '63 Ray Williams , 1963 single work review
— Appears in: Realist Writer , November no. 13 1963; (p. 24)
— Review of The Well Dressed Explorer Thea Astley , 1962 single work novel ; The Cupboard Under the Stairs George Turner , 1962 single work novel
A Novel Chronicle D. R. Burns , 1964 single work review
— Appears in: Prospect , vol. 7 no. 1 1964; (p. 27-29)
— Review of The Tilted Cross Hal Porter , 1961 single work novel ; The Well Dressed Explorer Thea Astley , 1962 single work novel ; The Cupboard Under the Stairs George Turner , 1962 single work novel ; Tourmaline Randolph Stow , 1963 single work novel ; The Hollow Woodheap David Forrest , 1962 single work novel
The Novel Today John McLaren , 1963 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 26 1963; (p. 39-40)
— Review of The Cupboard Under the Stairs George Turner , 1962 single work novel ; In My Lady's Chamber : A Novel Juliet Rolleston , 1962 single work novel ; But Still the Stream : A Novel of the Murray River Nancy Cato , 1962 single work novel ; The River and the Brook Nancy Phelan , 1962 single work novel
Chalk and Cheese John F. Burrows , 1963 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 23 no. 4 1963; (p. 276-280)
— Review of The Cupboard Under the Stairs George Turner , 1962 single work novel ; The Well Dressed Explorer Thea Astley , 1962 single work novel
The Edge of Genius : In Australia and New Zealand Nancy Keesing , 1963 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 9 March vol. 85 no. 4334 1963; (p. 36-37)
— Review of The Cupboard Under the Stairs George Turner , 1962 single work novel
The Four Careers of George Turner Bruce Gillespie , 2009 single work bibliography
— Appears in: Chained to the Alien : The Best of Australian Science Fiction Review 2009; (p. 40-42)
The Image of Reality in Our Writing John McLaren , 1963 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , Winter-Spring no. 27-28 1963; (p. 43-47) Twentieth Century Australian Literary Criticism 1967; (p. 235-244)
Common Threads in Old and Young Writers Peter Davis , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 12 October 1988; (p. 39)
Visions of Conflict : The Novels of George Turner Frank Kellaway , 1982 single work criticism
— Appears in: Overland , May no. 87 1982; (p. 9-13)
y separately published work icon George Turner : A Life Judith Raphael Buckrich , Carlton South : Melbourne University Press , 1999 Z554074 1999 single work biography
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