This is the story of an old cleaning woman, known as Weekly, or 'The Newspaper'. Unknown to the residents of Claremont Street, for whom she works, Weekly dreams of escape - escape from the parasitic demands of both her past and her present.
Weekly is one of Elizabeth Jolly's major creations; one of the wiry survivors whose vulnerability is Jolley's special task of illumination. This character is perhaps the author's outstanding achievement to date, and is created with humour, sharpness, not a little sympathy, and finally, a sort of desperate calm.
- ISBN10 0909144486
- ISBN13 9780909144487
- Publish Date 31 December 1981
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 5 June 2021
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Fremantle Press
- Imprint Fremantle Arts Centre Press
- Edition Limited ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 120
- Language English