The Nights belong to the Novelist The first of two programmes to celebrate the Australian Bicentennial.
A respectable elderly lady sits up in bed typing a manuscript. Next to her under the blanket is a naked Young man. She is wearing a lampshade on her head....
Bookmark, in the week chosen to commemorate the 'first fleet's' landing in Australia, is a Picture of the extraordinary world of Elizabeth Jolley , a writer who came to the country 30 years ago. Jolley has published ten books in the last ten years. Among them, the novel Milk and Honey, winner of the 1985 Premier's Literary Award.
But she has spent most of her life as an unpublished novelist. Director CHRISTINA WILCOX
Executive producer NIGEL WILLIAMS 9 INFO: page 79