A Stairway to Paradise
Madeleine St John
A Stairway to Paradise is classic Madeleine St John: poignant, witty, full of sharp and subtle observations.
Alex and Andrew are friends. And Barbara…Barbara is a goddess. Here is the eternal triangle, the story of three people locked in an unhappy tangle of emotions, none able to articulate the precise quality of their longing and dissatisfaction. In St John’s hands, what is commonplace is transformed and transcendent.
This is the work of an extraordinary writer.
Praise for A Stairway to Paradise:
‘Not much in the way of folly escapes Madeleine St John, and the oubliette she opens into the darker reaches of the spirit is unsettling.’
The Times
‘St John proves herself a comic, humane observer.’
Newsday
‘Madeleine St John is brilliant on the elliptical way lovers talk to each other.’
Daily Telegraph
Madeleine St John
Madeleine St John was born in Sydney. She graduated from SydneyUniversity in 1963 and lived in London for most of the succeeding years,until her death in 2006. The Women in Black is her first novel. She alsowrote A Pure Clear Light, 1996, The Essence of the Thing… »
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- RRP: $29.95
- Pub date: 16/05/2010
- ISBN: 9781921776250
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