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1 y separately published work icon A Distant Prospect Annette Young , Lorn : Distant Prospect Publishing , 2014 7835010 2014 single work novel historical fiction

'Australia promised a fresh start for Lucy Straughan and her father when they fled war-torn Ireland. Instead, Lucy was stricken by polio.

'Having mastered the cello during her prolonged confinement, Lucy is now fifteen, lonely and full of questions. Suddenly she is thrust into a string quartet and meets quixotic Della Sotheby, hot-headed Pim Connolly and precocious Phoebe Raye. The experience transforms each of their lives as they forge friendships and share not a few family secrets.

Set against the vivid backdrop of 1920s Sydney, A Distant Prospect is an intimate, hilarious and ultimately deeply moving coming-of-age adventure told with a touch of poetry by a quintessentially Irish narrator.' (Publication summary)
1 Untitled Annette Young , 1992 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , vol. 36 no. 2 1992; (p. 36)
— Review of The Recycled Joke Book : The Environment-Friendly Collection 1991 anthology prose
1 Gay, Oy Vey! Annette Young , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 5 July 1991; (p. 2S)
— Review of The Gay Divorcee Margaret Fischer , 1996 single work drama radio play
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