Avril Elgar

In 1977, after a fourteen year dry spell, the novelist Barbara Pym was nominated for a Booker Award for her novel, Quartet in Autumn. This drama ...

A young woman vanishes on a visit to an island with her husband and child, only to turn up decades later apparently unchanged in age or ...

Miss Howard’s exhibition of water-colours at the Green Salon falters but then takes off. The season at ‘Wentworth’ is now ...

Spend some time in the company of the guests at ‘Wentworth’ – all taking the waters except for the Colonel and Miss Howard, who ...

An affair between a literary agent and his best friend’s wife, unfolding in reverse-chronological order.

Winnie is a mentally handicapped woman who lives with her elderly mother (Cora) and aunt (Ida). They visit the cemetery where Winnie’s father is ...

“When you get to a man in the case, they’re like as a row of pins – For the colonel’s lady an’ Judy O’Grady ...