The Dressmaker
By: Rosalie Ham
Publisher: Unknown; Serpent's Tail
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780992334468; 9781846689949
Subjects: Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships; Dressmaking; Country life; Revenge; Women dressmakers; Fiction
Description: 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.
Notes: "Now a major motion picture"--Cover.