Charmian Clift

We are alike, Kathy thought. You are a desperate one, too. She was incredulous that she could be so happy when it was so perfectly clear that the situation was impossible, could not possibly last, and that in any case this man was doomed already. In this novel, Charmian Clift broke the rules of the romance genre by her representation...

The never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift. 'In those days the end of the morning was always marked by the quarry whistle blowing the noon knock-off. Since everybody was out of bed very early, morning then was a long time, or even, if you came to think about it, a round time – symmetrical anyway, and contained under a thin, radiant,...

These two classic travel works by Charmian Clift describing the bohemian life that she and her husband, writer George Johnston, and their family, led in Greece in the 1950s are re-released here in one beautiful new edition. Today we bought the house by the well. In 1951, the writer Charmian Clift and her husband, the novelist George Johnston, left Australia...