SPRINGTIME
Michelle
de Kretser
Picking
up her pace, Frances saw a woman in the leaf-hung depths of the garden. She
wore a long pink dress and a wide hat, and her skin was a creamy white. There
came upon Frances a sensation that sometimes overtook her when she was looking
at a painting: space was foreshortened, time stood still.
When Frances met Charlie at a party in
Melbourne he was married with a young son.
Now she and Charlie live in Sydney with her
rescue dog, Rod, and an unshakeable sense that they have tipped the world on
its axis. They are still getting their bearings – of each other and of their
adopted city. Everything is alien, unfamiliar, exotic: haunting even.
Michelle de Kretser’s brilliantly unsettling
take on the ghost story is packaged beautifully as a small hardback for readers
to treasure.
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri
Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was
fourteen. Educated in Melbourne
and Paris, Michelle has worked as a university tutor,
an editor and a book
reviewer.
She is the author of The Rose
Grower, The Hamilton Case,
which won the
Commonwealth Prize (SE Asia and Pacific region) and the UK Encore Prize, and The Lost
Dog,which was widely praised by writers such as AS Byatt, Hilary Mantel and
William Boyd
and won a swag of awards, including: the 2008 NSW Premier's Book
of the Year Award and the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, and the 2008 ALS Gold Medal. The Lost Dog was also
shortlisted for the Vance Palmer Prize for
Fiction, the Western Australian Premier's Australia-Asia
Literary Award, the
Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Asia-Pacific Region) and Orange Prize's
Shadow
Youth Panel. It was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Orange Prize
for Fiction. Questions of Travel
was the winner of the 2013 Miles Franklin Award, the
Prime Ministers Literary
Award for Fiction, the ALS Gold Medal, the Western Australian
Premier's Prize
and Award for Fiction, the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the NSW
Premier’s Literary Award for Book of the Year.
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PUBLISHED:
27 October 2014
Hardback- Allen & Unwin
NZRRP: $18.99
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