Elizabeth Jolley

Miss Peabody's Inheritance Elizabeth Jolley Reprint edition

A dazzling comic novel?a delightful romp and a blistering satire. ?Reading Jolley makes one feel alive.??Lemony Snicket.

Miss Peabody, a lonely spinster in London, writes a fan letter to Diana Hopewell, an Australian novelist. In reply, Hopewell sends installments of her novel-in-progress, the zany adventures of a trio of gently lesbian ladies, a headmistress and two companions, touring Europe with a hapless student. With each mail delivery, Miss Peabody's involvement with the novelist and her characters intensifies until fantasy and reality poignantly merge. "Wonderful . . . gives great pleasure" (New York Times Book Review).