The Women’s Pages by Debra Adelaide review – bend it like Brontë and Buttrose

A multi-layered story of missing, absent and dead mothers could have failed miserably but this Wuthering Heights inspired tale is tender and wise

Academic and author Debra Adelaide has a long been fascinated with the creative acts of writing and reading – how certain stories, in her case Wuthering Heights, stay with you for life. The Women’s Pages, based on the opening short story in her collection Letter to George Clooney, pays homage to this idea as Adelaide spins an intriguing tale with missing, absent and dead mothers at its core.

It is 2014 and 38-year-old Dove has recently lost her adoptive mother. Grief makes her inert. Unable to muster the energy to continue working, she quits and decides to write a novel. She’s never written one before and is uncertain how to proceed.

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