The sugar mother

Elizabeth Jolley

earliest edition we have, 1988 Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1988 210 pages

Edwin and his wife, Cecilia, are parted for a year while Cecilia pursues a medical fellowship, and Edwin soon finds his life complicated when his new neighbors--a widow and her twentyish daughter--move in uninvited.

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Editions we hold

The Sugar Mother edition · 2010 · Persea Books · 224 pages · 9780892553624
Sugar Mother edition · 2000 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 320 pages · 9781860498312
Tombé du ciel paperback · 1994 · Rivages · 229 pages · 9782869308008
The sugar mother. edition · 1990 · Penguin · 210 pages
The sugar mother edition · 1989 · Penguin · 210 pages · 9780140115017
The sugar mother. edition · 1989 · Viking · 210 pages
Sugar Mother edition · 1989 · HarperCollins Publishers · 9780060915889
The sugar mother edition · 1988 · Fremantle Arts Centre Press · 210 pages
The Sugar Mother edition · 1988 · Harper & Row · 210 pages

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