One of Australia's most celebrated novels: one woman's journey from Australia to London
Nora Porteous, a witty, ambitious woman from Brisbane, returns to her childhood home at age seventy. Her life has taken her from a failed marriage in Sydney to freedom in London; she forged a modest career as a seamstress and lived with two dear friends through the happiest years of her adult life.
At home, the neighborhood children she remembers have grown into compassionate adults. They help to nurse her back from pneumonia, and slowly let her in on the dark secrets of the neighborhood in the...

Warning: For Mature Adult Audiences. Contains wording and actions some may find offensive. Sexual explicit content. ( M/F ) The elven race and the human race never got along, humans always thought they were better than the elves, but the elves always wanted to be treated equally. The kingdom goes through treachery as the royal elven family continuously fights their way back to the throne that is rightfully theirs. Will the human race declare war when an elf is put on the throne? Follow this family of Elves as they each face their own battles to claim what is theirs.