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An elegant young woman stands with her two children at the gate of an austere chateau, locked out. The three have come from Australia, escaping violence, and their arrival is unexpected. The two children have never been here before. The woman, Olivia, has come home. But home is not what it was. Even when Olivia gains entry, what she finds is not what she left. While the children are entranced by the house, the formal gardens and the inviting lake, Olivia learns that members of her estranged family have experienced tragedies they cannot openly discuss - just as she has, herself - leading them to behave in ways that destabilise a world of exquisite artifice and control. - from dust jacket flap
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Epigraph: Avec ma main brulee, j'ecris sur la nature du feu./ With my burnt hand I write about the nature of fire. - Ingeborg Bachmann, Malina, after Gustav Flaubert, Letter to Louise Colet, 6 July 1852
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Un Oleaje Renovado
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A Funeral March To God Knows Where
2008
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The Shivers, in Slivers
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Haunting, Subtle Novella about Death and Rebirth
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Ill at Ease in a Gothic Pile
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Family Failings
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The Author as Reluctant Enigma
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The Lady Vanishes
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The View from There
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First Person : Julia Leigh
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Awards
- 2010 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards — Award for Fiction
- 2009 highly commended Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Fiction
- 2009 winner Le Prix Indications Passa Porta
- 2009 winner Encore Award
- 2009 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
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