The Watch Tower : Text Classics

Breaking their poses like trees snapping branches, the women urgently regarded each other, cleared away all signs of work in an instant, examined their souls for defects, in a sense crossed themselves, and waited.

After Laura and Clare are abandoned by their mother, Felix is there to help, even to marry Laura if she will have him. Little by little the two sisters grow complicit with his obsessions, his cruelty, his need to control.

Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power.

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Read an article about Elizabeth Harrower and her writing, published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 6 May, 2012.

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Praise for The Watch Tower:

‘A brilliant novel by a scandalously overlooked writer.’

Michelle de Kretser