The Nights Belong to the Novelist

A daylight docu-drama about the West Australian novelist Elizabeth Jolley. who had careers as a nurse, door-to-door salesperson (failed) and real estate salesperson (also failed) The fabric of Jolley's life as she talks to us about her writing - its genesis, texture and themes - has been embossed with the dramatised reconstructions of the unforgettable world of Jolley's characters (which have been played superbly by Ruth Cracknell and Kerry Walker). The pluperfect documentary. Susan Stewart