A Stairway to Paradise

✍ Scribed by St John, Madeleine Lauren;

• Book ID: 110280872
• Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 112 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781925773095

✦ Synopsis

Alex and Andrew are friends. And Barbara...Barbara is a goddess. Here is the eternal triangle, the story of three people in an unhappy tangle of emotions, none able to articulate the precise quality of their longing and dissatisfaction.

Are any of them truly interested in reaching the 'paradise' they claim to be seeking, or are they actually trying to avoid it?

In St. John's hands, what is commonplace is transformed and transcendent. This is the work of an extraordinary writer.

MADELEINE ST JOHN was born in Sydney in 1941. Her father, Edward, was a barrister and Liberal politician. Her mother, Sylvette, committed suicide in 1954, when Madeleine was twelve. Her death, she later said, 'obviously changed everything'.
St John studied Arts at Sydney University, where her contemporaries included Bruce Beresford, Germaine Greer, Clive James and Robert Hughes. In 1965 she married Chris Tillam, a fellow student, and they moved to the United States...