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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 The Pepper Gate
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'For successful artist Mallory Smith, painting has always been an escape - from his lonely childhood, his turbulent relationships with his three wives, and the birth of a daughter with a severe disability. But art is failing him now. Since being diagnosed with a terminal illness only two things matter: finishing the mudbrick house he started, and getting to know Em, the enigmatic young woman who must surely be the daughter he has not seen in twenty years.

As Mallory traces his colourful past, we see him through the eyes of the women in his life. His ex-wife Margaret challenges him to face his future, while his much younger wife Sueyen buries herself in her work to escape their failing marriage.

The Pepper Gate is a compelling and unpredictable novel about building relationships and deconstructing the past.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Epigraph: But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. - Carl Jung
  • Dedication: To my family, who generously gaveme the space to write.

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Works about this Work

Untitled Steven Gome , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 292 2007; (p. 58)

— Review of The Pepper Gate Genna De Bont , 2007 single work novel
Running Away towards Surrender Fiona Gruber , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 April 2007; (p. 24)

— Review of Provenance Jane Messer , 2007 single work novel ; The Pepper Gate Genna De Bont , 2007 single work novel
Ambitious Tale Ends in Mixed Palette of Life and Destiny Dorothy Johnston , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 March 2007; (p. 16)

— Review of The Pepper Gate Genna De Bont , 2007 single work novel
Ambitious Tale Ends in Mixed Palette of Life and Destiny Dorothy Johnston , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 March 2007; (p. 16)

— Review of The Pepper Gate Genna De Bont , 2007 single work novel
Running Away towards Surrender Fiona Gruber , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 April 2007; (p. 24)

— Review of Provenance Jane Messer , 2007 single work novel ; The Pepper Gate Genna De Bont , 2007 single work novel
Untitled Steven Gome , 2007 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 292 2007; (p. 58)

— Review of The Pepper Gate Genna De Bont , 2007 single work novel
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