The Well won for Elizabeth Jolley the 1986 Miles Franklin Award. Having forced myself to read to the finish, I fail to see how it won (must have been a lack of decent competition that year?!)I quite enjoyed the plot, and the first 80-odd pages chugged along nicely, as Jolley established both the ...
This book has been justly compared to One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. No Nurse Ratched - but we do have a Matron Hyacinth Price of the ineptly run St. Christopher and St. Jude nursing home. She and her “employees” are taking care of many elderly residents while happily bilking them out of the...
This was an odd tale, and not what I'd expected -- I didn't realize that Jolley was known for the macabre (well, maybe I would have if I'd read the cover blurb first...) Though this novel is short, it contains a great deal of texture. Weekly's backstory is fully drawn, as is her character. She wo...