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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Love Like Water
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'Cathy arrives in Alice Springs from cattle country, looking for a new way to live. But new is a serious challenge for a girl who's used to being measured by her actions, not her feelings. Feelings are slippery, like water. Hard to hold onto.

Jay is working for the local radio station, far from his own saltwater people, wary of this no-water country. He's searching for something, trying to survive.

Margie is a wild city girl, up for a good time, confronted by a world she's never known and a friend she can't always understand.

When lives collide at the heart of the country, no one stays unchanged.' - back cover

'More than a love story, this is a bold, confronting book about friendship, love, sex and identity at the heart of Australia, where black and white, bush and city collide.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: for my father/ and/ for my sister/ for family/ and homeland/ and for love
  • Epigraph: 'love is a river/ deep and wide/ love is a river/ it's got two sides/ might be raging/ might run dry/ but love is a river/ Sweet river of life' - Shane Howard

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 , 2007 .
      Extent: 349p.
      ISBN: 9781741148855
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2008 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 349p.
      Edition info: Rev. ed.
      ISBN: 9781741756388

Works about this Work

y separately published work icon Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature Adelle Sefton-Rowston , Oxford : Peter Lang , 2022 24390199 2022 multi chapter work criticism

'A reconciliation movement spread across Australia during the 1990s, bringing significant marches, speeches, and policies across the country. Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians began imagining race relations in new ways and articulations of place, belonging, and being together began informing literature of a unique new genre. This book explores the political and poetic paradigms of reconciliation represented in Australian writing of this period. The author brings together textual evidence of themes and a vernacular contributing to the emergent genre of reconciliatory literature. The nexus between resistance and reconciliation is explored as a complex process to understanding sovereignty, colonial history, and the future of society. Moreover, this book argues it is creative writing that is most necessary for a deeper understanding of each other and of place, because it is writing that calls one to witness, to feel, and to imagine all at the same time.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

The Children's Book Council of Australia Judges' Report 2008 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 52 no. 3 2008; (p. 3 - 9)
[Review] Love Like Water Nicola Philp , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Autumn vol. 15 no. 1 2007; (p. 23)

— Review of Love Like Water Meme McDonald , 2007 single work novel
[Review] Love Like Water Sally Harding , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Magpies : Talking About Books for Children , May vol. 22 no. 2 2007; (p. 43)

— Review of Love Like Water Meme McDonald , 2007 single work novel
[Review] Love Like Water Mike Shuttleworth , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Newsletter of the Australian Centre for Youth Literature , April no. 1 2007; (p. 21)

— Review of Love Like Water Meme McDonald , 2007 single work novel
[Review] Love Like Water Natalie Crawford , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , February vol. 86 no. 6 2007; (p. 23)

— Review of Love Like Water Meme McDonald , 2007 single work novel
Breaching the Divide Margaret Wenham , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 10 - 11 March 2007; (p. 27)

— Review of Love Like Water Meme McDonald , 2007 single work novel
Where Nothing is Black and White Angie Schiavone , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 24-25 March 2007; (p. 33)

— Review of Love Like Water Meme McDonald , 2007 single work novel ; Break of Day Tony Palmer , 2007 single work novel
Race, Love and Place Lorien Kaye , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 31 March 2007; (p. 24)

— Review of Love Like Water Meme McDonald , 2007 single work novel
Soapy Sheen to Leading Ladies' Emotional Journeys Bronwyn Rivers , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 April 2007; (p. 16-17)

— Review of Shearwater Andrea Mayes , 2007 single work novel ; Love Like Water Meme McDonald , 2007 single work novel ; The Seamstress Geraldine Wooller , 2007 single work novel
Land Rites of Love Martin Flanagan , 2007 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 3 March 2007; (p. 27)
The Children's Book Council of Australia Judges' Report 2008 2008 single work column
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , August vol. 52 no. 3 2008; (p. 3 - 9)
y separately published work icon Polities and Poetics : Race Relations and Reconciliation in Australian Literature Adelle Sefton-Rowston , Oxford : Peter Lang , 2022 24390199 2022 multi chapter work criticism

'A reconciliation movement spread across Australia during the 1990s, bringing significant marches, speeches, and policies across the country. Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians began imagining race relations in new ways and articulations of place, belonging, and being together began informing literature of a unique new genre. This book explores the political and poetic paradigms of reconciliation represented in Australian writing of this period. The author brings together textual evidence of themes and a vernacular contributing to the emergent genre of reconciliatory literature. The nexus between resistance and reconciliation is explored as a complex process to understanding sovereignty, colonial history, and the future of society. Moreover, this book argues it is creative writing that is most necessary for a deeper understanding of each other and of place, because it is writing that calls one to witness, to feel, and to imagine all at the same time.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

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