Six Women of Letters: Penguin Special
Penguin Special
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4.5 • 4 Ratings
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- $2.99
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- $2.99
Publisher Description
In homage to that most civilised of activities, letter writing, Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire created the literary afternoons of Women of Letters. Some of Australia's finest dames of stage, screen and page have delivered missives on a series of themes.
Published here for the first time are Deborah Conway writing about the ups and downs of being a dog owner in A Letter to the Best Decision I Ever Made; Ita Buttrose imagining an alternative life as an opera singer in A Letter to the Life I Could Have Lived; Tracee Hutchison writing A Complaint Letter to complaint letters; Pip Lincolne describing a magical childhood afternoon in A Letter to the Moment I Knew it Was Time to Go Home; A Love Letter from Kate Miller-Heidke aged twenty-nine to Kate Miller-Heidke aged twelve; and Helen Garner looking back on a teacher both terrifying and inspiring in A Letter to the Person I Misjudged.
Touching, funny and wise, this brand new collection of letters is a captivating tribute to correspondence.
'Filled with humour and heart, with tinges of melancholy or longing. As the prose delicately unfolds, each voice is clear, making the letters easy to devour.' Killings, the Kill Your Darlings blog
Customer Reviews
Six windows into six intriguing lives
If you only want to dip your toe into the Women of Letters phenomenon, then this is the book to read. The curators have chosen six thoroughly engaging and deeply personal letters from women whose writing styles, topics and lives are vastly different. Yet all six of them spin engrossing recollections, inviting us, for just a short while, to see the personal, the private, moments behind fairly public lives. I laughed, and even cried a little. Worth the money, I say.