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Name: Email: Book Details RRP: $29.95 NZ Price: $37.00 Publication date: 31/10/2011 ISBN: 9781921758850 Extent: 256 pp Format: Paperback (234 x 153 mm) Categories: Biography, Australian About the Author Danielle Wood was born in Hobart in 1972. Her first novel, The Alphabet of Light and Dark won the 2002 Australian/Vogel Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2004 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize in the Best First Book category. » More about Danielle Wood Rights Information World: Text Publishing Young Adult books at Text Text also publishes books for young adults and younger readers. We run an annual competition for the best unpublished manuscript, The Text Prize. Yaprizelogo See all YA books » Contact Us Text Publishing Company Swann House 22 William Street Melbourne VIC 3000 Phone: +61 3 8610 4500 Fax: +61 3 9629 8621 Website designed and developed by Inventive Labs 0 items in basket Add to basket($29.95) Housewife Superstar The very best of Marjorie Bligh Danielle Wood 9781921921056_regular Download cover Pre-order now, available 31 October 2011 Danielle_Wood_28-7-2011_04 Danielle Wood, author of Housewife Superstar, at home with Marjorie Bligh. photo: Bob Iddon Housewife Superstar is the life story of eccentric Tasmanian domestic goddess, Marjorie Bligh. Now 94 years old, Marjorie is the author of a library of advice books covering topics including food, household management, health and beauty, poetry, gardening and recycling. Marjorie is the go-to-girl for all manner of problem-solving. She knows what to do when a goldfish has constipation (feed it Epsom salts), and what to do when you run out of rouge (cut a beetroot in half and slap it on your cheeks). Famous for never wasting a thing, Marjorie has constructed a museum within her own home to show off the various items she has knitted and crocheted out of such unlikely materials as plastic shopping bags and used pantyhose. Her abundant garden is staked out with old-fashioned corset brassieres that function as plant protectors. Sensationally thrice-married (once divorced and twice widowed), Marjorie is, according to her colossal fan Barry Humphries, “no slouch in the matrimonial department”. Her short-lived second marriage, to preacher and schoolteacher Adrian Cooper, was punctuated by endless love notes, breakfasts in bed and territorial catfights with Adrian’s adult daughters. 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