The House Guest

'Three in a row and not a man in sight. Funny isn't it? Four kids and not a father between them, if you count Emmie.'

Robin Dromgoole, the only son of a widowed mother, learns to cook with Emmeline who lives next door. But Lisa on the other side, whom he minded when she was a baby, is the girl he marries.

As rich and ambitious as the award-winning Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Barbara Anderson's new novel spans the lives of three childhood friends, and interweaves their stories with a fascinating tale of literary detection. The book brims with her wry humour, and with her extraordinary gift for extracting the most telling human details from everyday conversations and ordinary life. Anderson's prose in The House Guest is simply dazzling: she writes from the heart and shoots from the hip.

Format: Softback - Excellent condition

Publisher: Victoria University Press

Published: 1995

ISBN: 0140036849