The Watch Tower: Text Classics

Author(s): Elizabeth Harrower

Fiction

Set in the leafy northern suburbs of Sydney during the 1940s, The Watch Tower is a novel of relentless and acute psychological power. Following their father's death, Laura and Clare are withdrawn from their elite private boarding school by their mother. As their mother slowly withdraws from them, the two are left to fend for themselves. Laura's boss Felix is there to help, even offering to marry Laura if she will have him. However Felix is not all that he seems and little by little the two sisters grow complicit with his obsessions, his cruelty and his need to control.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781921922428
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : Text Publishing Company
  • : 0.284
  • : April 2012
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Elizabeth Harrower
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : very good
  • : 338