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Issue Details: First known date: 2001... 2001 The House at Evelyn's Pond
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'When Ruth, with a love of flying that leads her to become an Auxiliary Pilot during WWII in England, meets Canadian navigator, Bill, on a fog-bound country airstrip, they know it's something special. And it is, until Bill's death some fifty years later. Recently widowed, Ruth returns to England for the first time since she left to live in Canada. It's her last journey as she dies unexpectedly in her cousin's home in London.

'Ruth's daughter, Jane, flies from Australia where she now lives with her dairy farmer husband Ian, to take her mother's ashes to the family home at Evelyn's Pond in Canada. On her own for the first time since her marriage, it's a time for reflections and memories, not all of them comfortable. She loves Ian but, with the best of intentions, he unwittingly controls her life, never allowing her the space to find out who she truly is. Surrounded by mementoes of the past, Jane faces a different kind of journey -- two days and nights of self discovery and decision. But Jane also has their daughter, Megan, in her thoughts. Megan is hiking on the west coast of Canada and falling in love as assuredly as she approaches life.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (via Amazon).

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 , 2001 .
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      Extent: 321p.
      ISBN: 1865085448

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  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Domestic Fiction Carolyn Tetaz , 2001-2002 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 237 2001-2002; (p. 49)

— Review of The House at Evelyn's Pond Wendy Orr , 2001 single work novel
In Short Debra Adelaide , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 October 2001; (p. 15)

— Review of The House at Evelyn's Pond Wendy Orr , 2001 single work novel ; Tell the Running Water Abbas El-Zein , 2001 single work novel ; Passionate Friends : Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton, and Miles Franklin Sylvia Martin , 2001 single work biography
Balancing Elegance and Earthiness Tony Maniaty , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 August 2001; (p. 15)

— Review of The House at Evelyn's Pond Wendy Orr , 2001 single work novel
Balancing Elegance and Earthiness Tony Maniaty , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 August 2001; (p. 15)

— Review of The House at Evelyn's Pond Wendy Orr , 2001 single work novel
In Short Debra Adelaide , 2001 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 October 2001; (p. 15)

— Review of The House at Evelyn's Pond Wendy Orr , 2001 single work novel ; Tell the Running Water Abbas El-Zein , 2001 single work novel ; Passionate Friends : Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton, and Miles Franklin Sylvia Martin , 2001 single work biography
Domestic Fiction Carolyn Tetaz , 2001-2002 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January no. 237 2001-2002; (p. 49)

— Review of The House at Evelyn's Pond Wendy Orr , 2001 single work novel
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