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At the height of Britain's General Strike in 1926 a red double-decker bus driven by a volunteer crashes into a low bridge in West London.
Almost eighty years later Jennifer Denzel reveals on daytime television that as a teenager she'd found her sister Charlotte hanging by a school tie in their bedroom. But Charlotte can't believe her ears - it was, she protests, Jennifer who tried to commit suicide all those years ago.
Their grandmother Bertha dreams of a distant time: of a young man she met at a Socialist rally, an unexpected wedding and of a sister, long dead. Meanwhile her daughter, Deirdre, remembers a night during the War forty years earlier, when a V-2 rocket destroyed an entire street, and when she made a shocking discovery.
Brimming with vivid detail of London past and present, The Past and Other Lies is full of warmth atmosphere, subtle wit and exquisite surprises.' (Publisher's blurb)
Notes
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Launched at Gleebooks, Sydney, 2 April 2009.
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Dedication: For my father, Michael
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Includes bibliography p373-374
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Includes author's notes detailing deliberate inaccuracies.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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Off the Shelf : Fiction
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 June 2009; (p. 32)
— Review of The Past and Other Lies 2009 single work novel -
Pick of the Week
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23-24 May 2009; (p. 30)
— Review of The Past and Other Lies 2009 single work novel -
[Review] The Past and Other Lies
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , March vol. 88 no. 6 2009; (p. 34)
— Review of The Past and Other Lies 2009 single work novel
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[Review] The Past and Other Lies
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , March vol. 88 no. 6 2009; (p. 34)
— Review of The Past and Other Lies 2009 single work novel -
Pick of the Week
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 23-24 May 2009; (p. 30)
— Review of The Past and Other Lies 2009 single work novel -
Off the Shelf : Fiction
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 June 2009; (p. 32)
— Review of The Past and Other Lies 2009 single work novel
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