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'Lena knew that the most tenuous of threads held everything together. At home she was known as the girl who lost things. Books, pens, wallets, her mother’s jewellery - the more precious the thing, the more likely she would lose it. She rifled through the pouch in from of her in search of her notebook. In New York she had learnt to take herself seriously, to believe that her thoughts and ideas mattered. I am no longer the person that I was, she incanted. I am different now. Coming home changes nothing.

'Two women, two lives, two paths. But are they so very different? In this poignant, dark, humane and funny novel, mother and daughter take turns opening old wounds and replaying old scripts, struggling with what can and cannot be said. Cusp is a novel about how small worlds are part of big worlds. It’s also about being a girl, about loving your mother, about life and death, and about not quite being there and almost being here.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (2018 ed.).

Notes

  • Dedication: For my parents, Doris and John Wilson, with love.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Nedlands, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: UWA Publishing , 2018 .
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      Extent: 240p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date 01 August 2018

      ISBN: 9781760800048

Works about this Work

Australian Fiction 2005-2006 Thomas Shapcott , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 51 no. 2006; (p. 108-119)
Literary Publishing in a Nutshell Ian Syson , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 183 2006; (p. 23-25)

— Review of Prochownik's Dream Alex Miller , 2005 single work novel ; Carry Me Down M. J. Hyland , 2006 single work novel ; An Accidental Terrorist Steven Lang , 2005 single work novel ; Cusp Josephine Wilson , 2005 single work novel
[Review] Cusp Anna Solding , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , Autumn no. 2 2006; (p. 60)

— Review of Cusp Josephine Wilson , 2005 single work novel
Bold New Step for UWA Press 2006 single work column
— Appears in: Uniview , Summer vol. 25 no. 1 2006; (p. 17-18)
On the Cusp Danielle Wood , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 279 2006; (p. 61)

— Review of The Factory Paddy O'Reilly , 2005 single work novel ; Cusp Josephine Wilson , 2005 single work novel
Gifts for Words with Emotional Precision Dorothy Johnston , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 26 November 2005; (p. 12)

— Review of A New Map of the Universe Annabel Smith , 2003 single work novel ; Cusp Josephine Wilson , 2005 single work novel
Nurtured Novelists Justine Ettler , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 18-19 February 2006; (p. 9)

— Review of Cusp Josephine Wilson , 2005 single work novel ; A New Map of the Universe Annabel Smith , 2003 single work novel
On the Cusp Danielle Wood , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 279 2006; (p. 61)

— Review of The Factory Paddy O'Reilly , 2005 single work novel ; Cusp Josephine Wilson , 2005 single work novel
[Review] Cusp Anna Solding , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Wet Ink , Autumn no. 2 2006; (p. 60)

— Review of Cusp Josephine Wilson , 2005 single work novel
Literary Publishing in a Nutshell Ian Syson , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 183 2006; (p. 23-25)

— Review of Prochownik's Dream Alex Miller , 2005 single work novel ; Carry Me Down M. J. Hyland , 2006 single work novel ; An Accidental Terrorist Steven Lang , 2005 single work novel ; Cusp Josephine Wilson , 2005 single work novel
Pressing Ahead With New Fiction Mark Irving , 2005 single work column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 17 September 2005; (p. 10)
Bold New Step for UWA Press 2006 single work column
— Appears in: Uniview , Summer vol. 25 no. 1 2006; (p. 17-18)
Australian Fiction 2005-2006 Thomas Shapcott , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 51 no. 2006; (p. 108-119)
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