Long Lost Reviews is a monthly meme created by Ally over at Ally’s Appraisals which is posted on the second Thursday of every month. The aim is to start tackling your review backlog. Whether it’s an in-depth analysis of how it affected your life, one sentence stating that you only remember the ending, or that you have no recollection of reading the book at all.
Published: 01 September 2000
Publisher: Duffy & Snellgrove
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Genre: Fiction
★ ★ ★ – 3 Stars
Tilly Dunnage has come home to care for her mad old mother. She left the small Victorian town of Dungatar years before, and became an accomplished couturier in Paris. Now she earns her living making exquisite frocks for the people who drove her away when she was ten. Through the long Dungatar nights, she sits at her sewing machine, planning revenge.
The Dressmaker is a modern Australian classic, much loved for its bittersweet humour. Set in the 1950s, its subjects include haute couture, love and hate, and a cast of engagingly eccentric characters.
I don’t think I saw the movie, or if I did I retained as much of it as I did the book.
I recall it being about a lady going home to her small town, there being rumours about her or a scandal from the past. And maybe a lot of references to the quiet and/or the vastness of the secluded town.
That’s it.
I gave it three stars though so I enjoyed it on some level, but I also have no desire to reread it to find out why. I might find some reviews that mention more detail, or read the wiki to kick start my memory but this is definitely a long lost review if ever there was one.
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