Elizabeth Costello Elizabeth Chaplin ‘This clever claustrophobic page-turner delivers

‘This clever claustrophobic page-turner delivers in spades’ Carolyn O’Brien

chief city of Airstrip One

twice-married Bob Dylan fan with a drink problem

set in the early 1920s…

one of the many Black Africans purveying goods outside normal shop hours and without work permits

Elizabeth Costello Elizabeth Chaplin ‘This clever claustrophobic page-turner deliversElizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown; she is f ted, studied, honoured. Famous principally for an early novel that established her reputation and from which, it seems, she will never escape, she has reached the stage, late in life, where her remaining function is to be venerated and applauded. One of a new breed of intellectual nomads, her life has become a series of engagements in sterile conference rooms throughout the