false 1053463 13 Shielded from emotional and physical abuse by layers of fat, Lilian struggles to escape a suffocating existence in the home of her tyrannical Victorian father and her elegant but ineffectual mother. Madness, cruelty and sexuality permeate the family's upper-crust Australian world. Lilian Una Singer starts life at the beginning of the twentieth century as the daughter of a prosperous middle-class Australian family. She ends it as a cheerfully eccentric bag-lady living on the streets, quoting Shakespeare. This book traces the progress of her life's journey, and why she made the choices she did. She's a person large in spirit as well as body, who wants to invent her own story, rather than allow it to be invented for her. Life presents her with many obstacles including the sinister advances of her father - but in spite of this she succeeds. Triumphantly, she makes her life her own, savouring every moment with the reminder that 'everything matters'. 1039956 1985 Lilian's Story total:41|5:7|4:16|3:12|2:5|1:1| 41 146 71 9 4 0 false false Sat Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jan 22 08:04:36 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 29 11:27:43 -0700 2008
This is one of her earlier books, and I thought in many ways it was far ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 01 11:01:04 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 01:00:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 19:45:48 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 19:49:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Tue Feb 24 16:52:41 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 16:54:40 -0800 2009 2 0 false false Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 03:26:43 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 05:21:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Jun 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 08:26:47 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 07:44:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 15:31:59 -0700 2007 Sun Aug 12 15:35:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 05:04:32 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 29 05:09:23 -0700 2007
It's a really sad story, but worth reading.]]> 4 0 false false Tue Aug 11 03:04:01 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 03:06:13 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 18 16:21:25 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 18 16:21:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 07:08:07 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 07:08:38 -0700 2009 1 0 0 false false Tue Oct 06 21:43:48 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 21:43:48 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Oct 04 04:27:22 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 04:27:22 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Sep 20 08:30:44 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 08:30:44 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Sep 05 14:30:24 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 14:30:24 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Aug 31 00:16:27 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 00:16:30 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Aug 28 07:30:09 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 07:30:09 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 20 10:50:17 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 20 10:50:17 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Jul 29 15:43:27 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 29 15:43:31 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jun 19 08:11:53 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 19 08:11:53 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1053463