The Home Girls

✍ Scribed by Masters, Olga

• Book ID: 109161221
• Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 187 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781922079466

✦ Synopsis

The Home Girls is a collection of candid, witty stories about rural and suburban life.

Set in the mid-twentieth century, these are tales of ordinary people and domestic life. Masters was, as the Advertiser remarked, 'a natural storyteller'.

Between the publication of The Home Girls , in 1982, and her death, Olga Masters was acclaimed as one of Australia's finest writers. Her short stories, distinguished by their acute observation of human behaviour, drew comparison with the finest exponents of the form, such as Chekhov.

The stories in this collection:

The Home Girls

The Rages of Mrs Torrens

On the Train

Leaving Home

Passenger to Berrigo

The Done Thing

A Rat in the Building

A Dog that Squeaked

A Young Man's Fancy

The Lang Women

The Snake and Bad Tom

A Poor Winner

Call Me Pinkie

Adams and Barker

Mrs Lister

The Creek Way

The Children Are Coming

A Good...