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The Watch Tower

by Elizabeth Harrower
Joan London
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Introduced by Joan London
Winner, Patrick White Award 1996
After Laura and Clare are abandoned by their mother, Felix is there to help, even to marry Laura if she will have him. Little by little the two sisters grow complicit with his obsessions, his cruelty, his need to control.
Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power.
'Haunting and delicate.' Kirkus Reviews
'A superb psychological novel that will creep into your bones.' Michelle de Kretser, The Monthly
'This is a harrowing novel, relentless in its depiction of marital enslavement, spiritual self-destruction and the exploited condition of women in a masculinist society...It is a brilliant achievement.' Washington Post
'As gripping and terrifying as any horror story...An astonishing book.' Guardian

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  • English