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He looks for that window of time between life and death, that state of grace where life can be given or taken. Perhaps it’s the moment when meaning is assigned to a life lived, or left gaping and gasping for forgiveness, that moment when a person can still be saved by those with the power to. If there is such a moment. Maybe there’s no such moment. Maybe you’re alive, then you’re dead.

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BY JULIE PROUDFOOT ON MAY 5, 2012

At the time of this interview Elizabeth Jolley had just released her fourteenth novel, ‘An Accommodating Spouse‘, in October 1999 and released only one more book in 2001, ‘An Innocent Gentleman’ and sadly passed in February 2007.
When reading Elizabeth Jolley’s work with her strong characters you can be forgiven for imagining a woman with a domineering presence. Her presence is powerful, but you will also find yourself drawn in by her quietly endearing sense of humour, her 
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