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'Exiled by love, Hazel Rey moves to the historic town of old Adaminaby. A victim of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme, the town now lurks, gone but not forgotten, under the waters of Lake Eucumbene.
'There, on the shore of the lake, Hazel meets four generations of women sharing one house. Eighty-year-old Esme Windle waits patiently for her turn to die - but a daughter is not meant to go before her mother, and Esme's ancient mother Hortense shows no signs of being finished with living. Esme's niece Byrne and Byrne's daughter, the widowed Lucetta, are succumbing to their own lonely fate. All four seem destined to live in a perpetual aphelion, pulled down by dark regrets and lost love.
'But when young Rhett Davys returns to his abandoned family home after the death of his mother, he carries within him a fire that will ignite all of their lives.' (Publisher's blurb)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Another Snowy Mountains Scheme
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 17 November 2007; (p. 41)
— Review of Aphelion 2007 single work novel -
This Week's Selections
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 28 July 2007; (p. 12)
— Review of Aphelion 2007 single work novel -
Family Saga Swimming in Loss
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 23 June 2007; (p. 25)
— Review of Aphelion 2007 single work novel -
Gone with the Windswept Waters
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9-10 June 2007; (p. 38)
— Review of Aphelion 2007 single work novel -
Love and Loss on a Lake's Shore
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 June 2007; (p. 13)
— Review of Aphelion 2007 single work novel
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Untitled
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , April/May vol. 86 no. 8 2007; (p. 36)
— Review of Aphelion 2007 single work novel -
Submerged by the Past
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 2-3 June 2007; (p. 10-11)
— Review of Aphelion 2007 single work novel -
The Darkest Point
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 292 2007; (p. 45)
— Review of Aphelion 2007 single work novel -
Love and Loss on a Lake's Shore
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 9 June 2007; (p. 13)
— Review of Aphelion 2007 single work novel -
Gone with the Windswept Waters
2007
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9-10 June 2007; (p. 38)
— Review of Aphelion 2007 single work novel -
Longing (On Loan from a Private Collection) (from a work-in progress)
2005
extract
autobiography
— Appears in: Heat , no. 9 (New Series) 2005; (p. 189-202)
- Adaminaby, Jindabyne - Eucumbene area, Cooma - Snowy - Bombala area, Southeastern NSW, New South Wales,