Elsbeth Edgar





Elsbeth Edgar

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After completing her university course (majoring in French Literature) and teaching for one year, Elsbeth traveled overland from Katmandu to London. For four years she spent the winter months working in London and the summer months traveling in Europe. When she returned to Melbourne, she taught English as a second language to the first wave of Vietnamese refugees for several years, before moving to Canberra to study for her Graduate Diploma in Librarianship.

Elsbeth took time off to raise her children before returning to library work when her they were all at school. She has always written but, once she had children, began writing stories for them and in turn rediscovered her love of children’s literature. The Visconti House is her first pu...more


Average rating: 3.67 · 160 ratings · 55 reviews · 2 distinct works
The Visconti House
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 2009 — 8 editions
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On Orchard Road
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011
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