The Seamstress

by Geraldine Wooller

Jo narrates the story of her strong, passionate mother, Willa, whose gradual slide into dementia shifts them into a new and difficult relationship. Willa’s life since arriving in Australia from Scotland as a young woman is re-created in vignettes: her spectacularly wrong choice in husband, the eccentricities of her family, the community of friends that sustain her, and her enduring capacity for joy. And in the telling, Jo also confronts her own life choices as a woman addicted to ‘being perpetually worried about something or other. And certainly addicted to love.’

(From Publisher).

The Seamstress is Geraldine Wooller's second novel. She has also published many short stories and has won awards for her short fiction. Geraldine lives in Perth, where she writes and teaches English as a Second Language and has an MA in English (Creative Writing) from the University of Western Australia.

Compassionate and strong, detailing the relationships of mother and daughter, sister and friends across generations, their loneliness and disappointments, energy and strengths.