Adventures in the ladies loo: stories from the Red Cross tea rooms
✍ Scribed by Donna Clare Williams
- Publisher
- Panther Publising;Williams Group Properties Trust t/a Panther Publishing
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 350 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0992437563
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
The former Brisbane City Council Women's Restrooms, located in the basement of the Brisbane City Hall on the Adelaide Street side, is the setting for Adventures in the Ladies Loo. The book is a collection of fictitious letters by Mavis, a regular visitor to the rooms. She finds a haven in this space for women only. Her letters start in the early 1980s and continue intermittently over a period of some thirty-five years, as circumstances change. The author has relied on her own observations, recollections provided by many individuals and information from the scant documentary sources available. Although some readers may identify with a particular character, material sourced from individuals has been used fictitiously. The book is divided into four parts. Part One concerns the best of times, in Mavis' opinion. Mavis addresses her letters to absent friends, as she describes the rooms and makes gossipy observations about the other 'regulars'. As she writes, she offers...