Elizabeth Jolley was interviewed by David Headon on 22 May 1984 in Darwin for 8T0P-FM. During 1984 Fremantle Arts Centre Press published two books by Jolley: a collection of stories Five Acre Virgin and The Travelling Entertainer, and the novel Milk and Honey. University of Queensland Press republished Palomino. In Meanjin 4/1984 Joan Kirkby discusses these works, as well as two of Jolley’s earlier novels, Miss Peabody’s Inheritance UQP, St Lucia, 1983) and Mr Scobie’s Riddle (Penguin, Melbourne, 1983). Kirkby’s article is called ‘The Nights Belong to Elizabeth Jolley: Modernism and the Sappho-Erotic Imagination of Miss Peabody’s Inheritance’. In this interview Elizabeth Jolley discussed with David Headon some of the early circumstances of her life, her migration to Australia, and the difficulties of getting published from the west.