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The Essence of the Thing by St John, Madeleine is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Madeleine St John’s novel about the shockingly abrupt end to a relationship skillfully treads a fine line between humour and pathos. "Brisk, sophisticated and artful" (New York Times Book Review).Nicola’s problems begin when she is told by her partner, Jonathan, that they should part. She goes out to the off-licence and returns to find a stranger in her living room. The stranger looks and talks like Jonathan, but Jonathan had always been predictable. Where was the man she loved?"Using spare prose, sparkling dialogue and painfully true observations on family life, St John creates a winning combination of humour and pathos." - Publishers WeeklyMadeleine St John graduated from Sydney University and was the author of four novels. The first, The Women in Black, is a comedy of manners set in a department store in her native Sydney during the 1950s. In 2018 the book was republished as Ladies in Black. Her other three are a kind of trilogy based in London’s Notting Hill, where she lived.

Who reads The Essence of the Thing?

Author

St John, Madeleine

Publisher

The Text Publishing Company

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9781921776830

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Thriller, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.39 / 5 (283 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14