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The Dressmaker

Tilly Dunnage has come home to care for her mad old mother. She left the small Victorian town of Dungatar years before, and became an accomplished couturier in Paris. Now she earns her living making exquisite frocks for the people who drove her away when she was ten. Through the long Dungatar nights, she sits at her sewing machine, planning revenge. The Dressmaker is a modern Australian classic, much loved for its bittersweet humour. Set in the 1950s, its subjects include haute couture, love and hate, and a cast of engagingly eccentric characters. It is now a major motion picture, starring Kate Winslet and fine Australian actors including Judy Davis, Hugo Weaving, Liam Hemsworth and extras from the author's hometown of Jerilderie.

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Barcode Shelf Location Collection Volume Ref. Branch Status Due Date Res.
32320003971474 F
Fiction-Adult   East Maitland library . . On Loan . 6 Apr 2024
32320004099036 F
Fiction-Adult   Maitland library . . On Loan . 5 Apr 2024
32320004045054 F
Fiction-Adult   Thornton library . . Available .  
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ISBN 9780992334468 (paperback)
9781875989706 (pbk.) 0992334462 (paperback)
1875989706 (pbk.)
Classification Number F
Author Ham, Rosalie
Title The Dressmaker [BK]
Note "Now a major motion picture"--Front cover.
"A bittersweet comedy about love, revenge and haute couture"--Front cover.
Tilly Dunnage has come home to care for her mad old mother. She left the small Victorian town of Dungatar years before, and became an accomplished couturier in Paris. Now she earns her living making exquisite frocks for the people who drove her away when she was ten. Through the long Dungatar nights, she sits at her sewing machine, planning revenge. The Dressmaker is a modern Australian classic, much loved for its bittersweet humour. Set in the 1950s, its subjects include haute couture, love and hate, and a cast of engagingly eccentric characters. It is now a major motion picture, starring Kate Winslet and fine Australian actors including Judy Davis, Hugo Weaving, Liam Hemsworth and extras from the author's hometown of Jerilderie.
Exotic Tilly, a talented and beautiful misfit, returns from Europe to the small Victorian town of Dungatar to nurse her mad old mother. Her reappearance after twnety years is met with suspicion and malice from the eccentric locals until they discover her startling dressmaking skills.
Subject Man-woman relationships Gothic fiction Australia Fiction
Country life -- Victoria
Dressmakers. Revenge Australia Fiction
Women dressmakers
Dressmaking Amateurs' manuals
Australian fiction
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