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'Pia Ricci has come to Port Hedland to free her life of complications and distractions. But when Pia discovers a bundle of money and men's clothing buried on the outskirts of town, she has an uncomfortable feeling that things are about to change. Is it connected to the foreigner Joachim, a new arrival in town? Or to the ghosts in her own past? As Pia and Joachim grow closer, Pia can see he has secrets. The widow Barnes, one of Joachim's nursing charges, also holds secrets, and they're coming to the surface. As these three misfits come together, their world starts to change in ways they could never have expected.
'Set against the vast inhospitable landscape of the Pilbara, this is a powerful, tightly-woven desert tale of ghosts, grief and love.' (Publisher's blurb)
Notes
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Epigraph: 'Every man has to, wants to, needs to, once a lifetime, do a girl in.'--T. S. Eliot Sweeney Agonistes.
Affiliation Notes
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Associated with the AustLit subset Australian Literary Responses to 'Asia' as the work contains an 'Asian' character.
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Works about this Work
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Off the Shelf : Fiction
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 2 August 2008; (p. 28)
— Review of Beneath the Bloodwood Tree 2008 single work novel -
Sinister Silence to Unavenged Crime
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 5 July 2008; (p. 14)
— Review of Beneath the Bloodwood Tree 2008 single work novel -
Women Under Pressure
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , July vol. 3 no. 6 2008; (p. 22-23)
— Review of Beneath the Bloodwood Tree 2008 single work novel ; The Steele Diaries 2008 single work novel ; Musk and Byrne 2008 single work novel -
Abridgment of Hope
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 302 2008; (p. 29)
— Review of Beneath the Bloodwood Tree 2008 single work novel
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Abridgment of Hope
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 302 2008; (p. 29)
— Review of Beneath the Bloodwood Tree 2008 single work novel -
Women Under Pressure
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , July vol. 3 no. 6 2008; (p. 22-23)
— Review of Beneath the Bloodwood Tree 2008 single work novel ; The Steele Diaries 2008 single work novel ; Musk and Byrne 2008 single work novel -
Sinister Silence to Unavenged Crime
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 5 July 2008; (p. 14)
— Review of Beneath the Bloodwood Tree 2008 single work novel -
Off the Shelf : Fiction
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 2 August 2008; (p. 28)
— Review of Beneath the Bloodwood Tree 2008 single work novel
- Port Hedland, Pilbara area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,
- 1990s