Previously published as The Women in Black, now a major film directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Angourie Rice, Rachel Taylor, Noni Hazlehurst, Susie Porter and Shane Jacobson.
Sydney, 1959
On the second floor of Goode’s famous department store, the ladies in black are girding themselves for the Christmas rush. Lisa, the new Sales Assistant (Temporary), is assigned to Ladies’ Cocktail. She is about to meet the glamorous Continental refugee, Magda, guardian of the rose-pink cave of Model Gowns.
Madeleine St John, a ‘modern-day Jane Austen’, conjures a vanished summer of innocence with the lightest comic touch.
With a new introduction by Bruce Beresford, director of Ladies in Black.
AN AUSTRALIAN CLASSIC NOW A HIT MUSICAL AND A MAJOR FEATURE FILM
‘A pocket masterpiece. A jewel.’ HILARY MANTEL
‘Shimmers with wit and tenderness.’ HELEN GARNER
‘Funny, affectionate, moving.’ MONICA Mc INERNEY
‘Brimming with elegance, uncannily modern and sparkling with mischief.’ ZOË FOSTER BLAKE