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''As I bumped across the water in a leaky tin dinghy I didn't know that the journey had begun. That the pale yellow house with a corridor of columns and long verandah on the high, rough hill would hold the key to it all...'
'At 44 Susan Duncan appeared to have it all. Editor of two of Australia's top selling women's magazines, a happy marriage, a jetsetting lifestyle covering stories from New York to Greenland, rubbing shoulders with Hollywood royalty, the world was her oyster. But when her beloved husband and brother die within three days of each other, her glittering life shatters.
'In shock, she zips on her work face and soldiers on - until one morning eighteen months later when she simply can't get out of bed.
'Heartbreaking, funny and searingly honest, Salvation Creek is the story of a woman who found the courage not only to walk away from a successful career and begin again, but to beat the odds in her own battle for survival and find a new life - and love - in a tiny waterside idyll cut off from the outside world.
'From the terrifying first step of quitting the job that had always anchored her to abandoning herself to a passionate affair that she knows will break her heart, Duncan never flinches from the truth or loses her wicked sense of humour.
'Even when she finds a paradise on earth only to discover that it may be too late. It's been said that the greatest risk in life is not to take a risk. Sometimes you have to risk everything to find the only thing you need.' (Publication summary)
Notes
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Dedication: For my brother, John.
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Salvation Creek includes references to Dorothea Mackellar and her Pittwater home, Tarrangaua.
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Prequel to The House at Salvation Creek.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Salvation Creek : A Journey of Discovery
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: Polestar , December no. 13 2006; (p. 68)
— Review of Salvation Creek : An Unexpected Life 2006 single work autobiography -
A Journey of Discovery : Making Sense of Loss
2006
single work
column
— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , June no. 159 2006; (p. 21) -
Honesty as Pain Relief
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8-9 April 2006; (p. 30)
— Review of Salvation Creek : An Unexpected Life 2006 single work autobiography -
Untitled
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 April 2006; (p. 10)
— Review of Salvation Creek : An Unexpected Life 2006 single work autobiography -
Loss and Redemption
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25-26 March 2006; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Salvation Creek : An Unexpected Life 2006 single work autobiography
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Life Renewed Beyond the Comfort Zone
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 February 2006; (p. 14)
— Review of Salvation Creek : An Unexpected Life 2006 single work autobiography -
Off the Shelf
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 11 March 2006; (p. 32)
— Review of Salvation Creek : An Unexpected Life 2006 single work autobiography -
Books Fiction
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 18 - 19 March 2006; (p. 22)
— Review of Salvation Creek : An Unexpected Life 2006 single work autobiography -
Loss and Redemption
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 25-26 March 2006; (p. 20-21)
— Review of Salvation Creek : An Unexpected Life 2006 single work autobiography -
Untitled
2006
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 April 2006; (p. 10)
— Review of Salvation Creek : An Unexpected Life 2006 single work autobiography -
A Journey of Discovery : Making Sense of Loss
2006
single work
column
— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , June no. 159 2006; (p. 21)
Awards
- Lovett Bay, Pittwater area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,