House of Fiction, The: Leonard, Susan and Elizabeth Jolley (a Memoir) SIGNED BY AUTHOR

SIGNED COPY. Susan Swingler is the step-daughter of one of Australia’s most revered writers – Elizabeth Jolley. Abandoned at the age of four, Susan Swingler had no contact with her father Leonard or with her stepmother, the revered Australian writer Elizabeth Jolley, until the age of 21. In this startling part memoir, part mystery, Susan explains why she and her father were kept apart while telling the story of her quest to find him. As she painstakingly traces and documents clues to a better understanding of Leonard, she inadvertently unravels an intricate fiction created by Elizabeth Jolley to protect those she loves. 111114