Francis Sprigge and Lilian Powys, two strangers escaping their past, move to the Blue Mountains together, following their dreams of creativity and love. But as Francis pursues his gift for designing exquisite wallpaper, Lilian finds that the ordinary life she craves remains frustratingly beyond reach. Despite her adoring husband and spirited young daughter Adelaide, Lilian cannot outrun her demons, and cracks soon appear in the family’s harmonious veneer. [click to continue…]
Barbara Duncan
IT’S 1948 AND HANORA SPARROW and her teenage daughters, Aria and Rosy, have fallen on tough times. With little more than the suitcases they carry and a few pounds between them, they must move to a housing commission camp on the outskirts of Sydney. [click to continue…]
Elvin Beauregard is ethereal! The problem is that he’s in year twelve and Petula is only in year nine, so attracting his attention is proving quite difficult. And that’s not Petula’s only problem. [click to continue…]
‘The denuded earth of the iron-ore loading yards, the huge jetties thrusting their way out into the clear blue sea, [click to continue…]
Marie King is fifty-nine, recently divorced, and has lived a rather conventional life on Sydney’s affluent north shore. Now her three children have moved out, the family home is to be sold, and with it will go her beloved garden. [click to continue…]
As a young woman Nikki Gemmell wanted to travel and see the world; adventure lay in running away from where she had grown up, Australia. [click to continue…]
Simone Harlowe is young and clever, an Aboriginal lawyer straddling two lives and two cultures while studying at Harvard. [click to continue…]
Unexpectedly alone in the summer holidays, security consultant Sandra Mahoney mulls over an undignified photograph that has been published in the Canberra Times. [click to continue…]
Would you risk your life to save a stranger, follow the Pied Piper or boast about a 4800 kilometre trip in the wilds you never made? [click to continue…]
Pito Tehana is a big zero – that’s the word on the coconut radio. His lovely wife Materena is now a big radio star, and she hasn’t turned into a show-off or anything. [click to continue…]
