The world had made up its mind about her oddity in her spinsterhood.

对于她这种古怪的老姑娘，外面的世界早已经有了固定的成见。

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This novel celebrates the honourable estate of spinsterhood and the tentative emergence of suburban Australian society.

ECONOMIST: Fiction from Australia

Once factors such as spinsterhood and early hysterectomy were eliminated from the statistics, it became clear that the centenarians were three times more likely to have given birth to at least one child in their 40s than those who had then gone on to live only an average lifespan.

ECONOMIST: Ageing