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'It’s 2022 and Helen is starting again. Newly single, adrift in a hostile rental market, she finds a four-bedroom house flanked by apartment blocks that stare into the yard. Despite the lack of privacy, she fills its rooms with an unlikely group of residents looking for communal belonging: a zine maker working on a punk music archive; an activist writing about Australian anti-communism; a research scientist striving to put down roots; and a part-time rugby league player who has one chance to play for his country before retirement. Each is looking to build a future, each is haunted by their recent past.' (Publication summary)
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Sequel to The Magpie Wing.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Property Woes and Punk Sensibilities Define Paradise Estate, Max Easton’s Witty New Novel
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 19 October 2023;
— Review of Paradise Estate 2023 single work novel'Max Easton’s novel Paradise Estate offers a variation on the share-house drama epitomised by Monkey Grip (1977), Helen Garner’s chronicle of communal living in Melbourne.'
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Paradise Estate by Max Easton Review – a Layered, Aching Portrait of Millennial Malaise
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 17 October 2023;
— Review of Paradise Estate 2023 single work novel'In this sequel of sorts to The Magpie Wing, a group of thirtysomethings share the rent in Sydney, searching for solidarity and meaning in a sterile, gentrifying world'
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Paradise Estate by Max Easton Review – a Layered, Aching Portrait of Millennial Malaise
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 17 October 2023;
— Review of Paradise Estate 2023 single work novel'In this sequel of sorts to The Magpie Wing, a group of thirtysomethings share the rent in Sydney, searching for solidarity and meaning in a sterile, gentrifying world'
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Property Woes and Punk Sensibilities Define Paradise Estate, Max Easton’s Witty New Novel
2023
single work
review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 19 October 2023;
— Review of Paradise Estate 2023 single work novel'Max Easton’s novel Paradise Estate offers a variation on the share-house drama epitomised by Monkey Grip (1977), Helen Garner’s chronicle of communal living in Melbourne.'
Awards
- 2024 highly commended Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Fiction
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- Hurlstone Park, Canterbury area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,
- 2022