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y separately published work icon The House on the Hill single work   autobiography  
Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 The House on the Hill
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'In this memoir, Susan Duncan reaches an age where there's no point in sweating long-term ramifications. There aren't any. This new understanding delivers an unexpected bonus – the emotional freedom and moral clarity to admit to hidden and often fiendish facts of ageing and, ultimately, to find ways to embrace them.'

'It also unleashes an overwhelming desire to confront her intractable 94-year-old mother with the dreadful secrets of the past before it is too late, no matter the consequences. It is the not-knowing, she says, that does untold damage.'

'Interwoven with stories from the land – building a fully sustainable eco-house in the mid-coast of NSW with her engineer husband Bob, and grappling with white-eyed roans, dogs, bawling cattle markets, droughts and flooding rains, not to mention blunt-speaking locals – this is a book about a mother and daughter coming to terms, however uneasy, with the awful forces that shaped their relationship'. (Source: random house Books Australia website)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • North Sydney, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Penguin , 2016 .
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      Extent: 357p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 3 October 2016
      ISBN: 9780143780502, 9780143780489

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

A Blunt Look at the Strife of Ageing Dianne Dempsey , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 October 2016; (p. 30)

— Review of The House on the Hill Susan Duncan , 2016 single work autobiography
New Pleasures and Old Pains Susan Wyndham , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 16 October 2016; (p. 12)

— Review of The House on the Hill Susan Duncan , 2016 single work autobiography
New Pleasures and Old Pains Susan Wyndham , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 16 October 2016; (p. 12)

— Review of The House on the Hill Susan Duncan , 2016 single work autobiography
A Blunt Look at the Strife of Ageing Dianne Dempsey , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 October 2016; (p. 30)

— Review of The House on the Hill Susan Duncan , 2016 single work autobiography
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