"Loving Daughters" takes place in a small village in New South Wales and is a brilliant, unsentimental portrait of two sisters: one artistic and restless, the other houseproud and her father's favorite. The entry of an eligible young man into their lives creates a disturbing triangle of desire and rivalry.
With this, her first novel, Olga Masters was immediately hailed for her powerful and original fiction. Loving Daughters is a brilliant, unsentimental portrait of two sisters - one artistic and restless, the other houseproud, her father's favourite. The entry of an eligible young man into their lives creates a disturbing triangle of desire and rivalry. Loving Daughters was highly commended for the National Book Council Award (then Australia's key literary award) and was also published in the US by Norton and in France by Rivages.
With subtle brilliance, Masters's new novel re-creates the mood of small townlife in 1935. The Depression is a difficult time, and love is at a premium inthe day-to-day struggle to maintain respectability.
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