Forty years on, Elizabeth Jolley’s The Well still unsettles with its haunted landscape, psychological dread and buried desire. Graeme Karstaedt reflects on this Australian classic.

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Western Australia’s arts playground

25 June 2026
Forty years on, Elizabeth Jolley’s The Well still unsettles with its haunted landscape, psychological dread and buried desire. Graeme Karstaedt reflects on this Australian classic.