The Women In Black: A Novel

"This little novel powered me through the first dismaying weeks of the pandemic and, immediately after reading it, I ordered five more copies to distribute as “emergency mental health reading” for friends having a tough time. Written in 1993 and published in America for the first time, The Women in Black is set in a fictional Australian department store in the 1950s and focuses on four saleswomen who work in the “better dresses” department. Tart, beguiling, witty and compassionate, Madeleine St. John’s novel is a literary boost for the spirits."