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 The Ladies of Missalonghi - Colleen McCullough
 The Ladies of Missalonghi - Colleen McCullough ... PromotionsNewest Review: ... read it again. In fact I wouldn't have read Ladies of Missalonghi had my friend not pressed it upon me all those years ago. ... more ... Thank goodness she did!
The novel is about - surprise, surprise - the ladies of a small town in Australia called Missalonghi. The town is dominated by the Rutherford family, especially the male, wealthier ones, who take advantage of their impoverished womenfolk, cheating them out of what little money they have. Three of these indigent ladies are Missy, her mother and her aunt who eke out a living on the fringes of Missalonghi society. Missy is a plain woman on the wrong side of thirty and consigned to the shelf b...more |
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The Ladies of Missalonghi - Colleen McCullough: Charming and delightful little book (393 words)
by - written on 18/09/09 (Very useful, 39 readings)
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This is one of my all time favourite books and I can read it as many times as you like and still find it funny and uplifting. It's not 'literature' and it's only a slim, little volume, but I've read it over twenty times in the past 10-odd years and I will no doubt read it many more times in the future. Colleen McCullough is an Australian writer famous for her magnum opus, The Thorn Birds. I read Thorn Birds years ago and though I enjoyed it, I wouldn't read it again. In fact I wouldn't have read Ladies of Missalonghi had my friend not pressed it upon me all those years ago. Thank goodness she did! The novel is about - surprise, surprise - the ... Read the complete review
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