- 384 pgs (paperback)
- published October 2017
- Miles Franklin award (2018)
- Stella Prize Shortlist (2018)
- interlocking stories, with only one character, Pippa appearing in all of the stories
- beautiful prose
- set in Paris, Sydney and Colombo
- lots of interesting details and trivia slipped in together with vivid descriptions of time and place
- themes of ethnicity, class, emigration are explored
- interesting and clever character studies .....
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| Michelle de Kretser at the Perth Writer's festival 2018 |
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| Now, thanks to this book, noted Fra we now know what MD on favourite chutney jar stands for. It's "Marketing Department Government Guaranteed", as Cassie finds out in Chapter 2. |
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| Fluevogs .... Celeste wears Fluevogs from ebay - plum and pink with hourglass heels. (Ch 3 Museum of Romantic Life) |
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| A plaster cast of Chopin's "left hand, brilliantly white on the red lining of the cabinet, lay next to a cast of Sand's right arm and hand" from Ch 3 Pippa has never heard of George Sand. Celeste tells her that Chopin and Sand explored the countryside on a donkey. Love these little bits of information that flow through the novel. |
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