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y separately published work icon A Bird on My Shoulder single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 A Bird on My Shoulder
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'An unforgettably moving memoir about love and the unexpected gifts that loss and grief can bring.

'Over a decade ago, award-winning journalist Lucy Palmer's beloved husband Julian died of cancer, leaving her alone to manage a farm south of Sydney and to raise their three young children. This moving and beautifully written memoir explores her experiences of death, loss, single parenting and growing older. It is a way of making sense of the momentous experiences that Lucy says she has been privileged to live through, and her honest and inspiring account of putting the pieces back together and finding hope out of a seemingly hopeless set of circumstances. This is a startlingly moving book to read and offers new and surprising ways to think about the worst that can happen and what it can mean for us.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2016 .
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      Extent: 312p.
      Note/s:
      • Published July 2016
      ISBN: 9781743311530

Other Formats

  • Also large print.

Works about this Work

Review : A Bird on My Shoulder Jennifer Somerville , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , August 2016; (p. 52)

— Review of A Bird on My Shoulder Lucy Palmer , 2016 single work autobiography
Review : A Bird on My Shoulder Jennifer Somerville , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , August 2016; (p. 52)

— Review of A Bird on My Shoulder Lucy Palmer , 2016 single work autobiography
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