Sylvia Lennox by Elizabeth Hamlin

This uplifting novel describes Sylvia Lennox's gradual journey towards becoming an artist, her life-long friendship with Jade Chong, who quickly succeeds as a fashion designer and their lives, loves, careers, marriages and children over more than 50 years. Sylvia and Jade meet as students in a rooming house full of unusual characters in the historically interesting Millers Point area near the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Despite their different backgrounds and personalities, they bond immediately and support each other to achieve their various goals. 'Sylia Lennox' is a hopeful, inspiring, feel-good, yet realistic novel.