Elizabeth Jolley strikes dread into her Australian reader in 1988 as she makes due acknowledgement of the auspices under which Sugar Mother was written:
I must thank the Australian Bicentennial authority for commissioning this hook as a contribution to the celebration of the Australian Bicentenary in 1988.
Sugar Mother by Elizabeth Jolley
Fremantle Arts Centre Press, $19.95 hb, 216 pp
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