In Central Mischief, a collection of articles, speeches and essays compiled by her literary agent Caroline Lurie, Elizabeth Jolley writes of her childhood in the industrial Midlands of England, the Quaker boarding school she attended, her experiences as a trainee nurse, and of migrating to Australia in the 1950s. Like her fiction, Central Mischief is amusing, penetrating and refreshingly honest and gives an insight into Elizabeth Jolley - one of Australia's most daring and entertaining writers - as a person.
