Helen Hodgman
A young wife and mother watches a clock that seems forever stuck at three-in-the-afternoon. Her neighbour obsesses over the front lawn, and the women at the local beach chatter about knitting patterns. Her husband didnâ€™t come home last night.,She lives for Tuesdays and Thursdays, when the baby is with Mother-in-law and she can escape to a less humdrum life. Jonathan, man about town, is Tuesday. Ben, a freethinking artist, is Thursday.,But Jonathan is in serious trouble, and Thursdays are turning sour. Very sour.,A brilliant, acerbic tale of a crack-up in stultifying suburbia, Blue Skies marked the emergence of a unique voice in Australian fiction.
Fiction,Cultural,Australia,Cultural,Tasmania,Literature,20th Century
Blue Skies