Ham has real gifts as a writer of surfaces and pictures, bringing Tilly's frocks to surprising, animated life.' The New York Times Book Review 'Ham's eye for the absurd, the comical, and the poignant are highly tuned. It's no wonder The Dressmaker, a tale of small-town couture and revenge, is being adapted for film.' The Sydney Morning Herald 'It's clear we're visiting a small 1950s town not of history but as imagined by Tim Burton: the gothic, polarized world of Edward Scissorhands. Blessed with an astringently unsentimental tone and a talent for creating memorably eccentric characters, Ham also possesses a confidently brisk and mischievous sense of plot. PRAISE FOR THE DRESSMAKER ' is a true original. The major motion picture also stars Judy Davis, Hugo Weaving, and extras from the author's hometown of Jerilderie. Set in the 1950s, its subjects include haute couture, love and hate, and a cast of engagingly eccentric characters. The Dressmaker is a modern Australian classic, much loved for its bittersweet humour. Through the long Dungatar nights, she sits at her sewing machine, planning revenge. Now she earns her living making exquisite frocks for the people who drove her away when she was ten. She left the small Victorian town of Dungatar years before, and became an accomplished couturier in Paris. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KATE WINSLET AND LIAM HEMSWORTH Tilly Dunnage has come home to care for her mad old mother. The bestseller from the author of the upcoming new novel The Year of the Farmer.

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