Ruth Wilson

As she approached the age of seventy, Ruth Wilson began to have recurring dreams about losing her voice. Unable to dismiss her feelings of unexplainable sadness, she made the radical decision to retreat from her conventional life with her husband to a sunshine-yellow cottage in the Southern Highlands where she lived alone for the next decade. Ruth had fostered a...

Ruth Wilson... emerges from this discreet, wry memoir as quietly defiant as any heroine from the Jane Austen novels she so admires. The Sydney Morning Herald At the age of seventy, Ruth Wilson blew up her life. Confronting feelings of regret and unhappiness, she left her husband, bought a sunshine-yellow cottage in the Southern Highlands, and resolved to re-read the...