Elizabeth Jolley

About the author

Elizabeth Jolley was an English-born Australian novelist whose fiction made room for eccentric, isolated, and socially overlooked people. Miss Peabody’s Inheritance plays with the distance between a reader’s imagined life and the lives of the women around her; Jolley’s wider work moves among novels, short stories, radio, and memoir. Her comic timing often gives way to unsettling questions about care, dependence, and who gets to define a life as ordinary.