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'Two things happened to Rosemary that early summer;
she won $30,000 playing Keno at the Hakoah Club and
she fell in love with a woman much younger than herself.
Thus, laden with luck, she entered her fifty-first year. . . .
'When middle-aged, academic Rosemary meets twenty-seven-year-old Billie--a woman with a tough bike and an even tougher attitude--she goes weak at the knees. Yet when Billie speeds off on a soul-searching bender through the Australian outback, Rosemary is left to ponder love and longevity, and weather a few adventures of her own.
Cooped up for the summer with the eccentric Daphne--who is busy transforming her body into a tattooed biography of her mad mother's life--Rosemary unwittingly winds up with a leading role in a lesbian porn flick, loses her car to a shears-wielding murderer, and still finds time to compost her garden and miss Billie to no end. Yet as each woman's path twists through a hilarious comedy of manners and mishaps, one fact remains: relationships lie in the sometimes capable--sometimes careless--hands of coincidence.' (Publication summary)
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Works about this Work
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Books in Brief
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: The New York Times Book Review , 16 September 1998; (p. 16)
— Review of Passing Remarks 1996 single work novel -
Writers' Retreats and Other Hang-Ups
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14 December 1996; (p. 12s)
— Review of Passing Remarks 1996 single work novel -
[Review] Passing Remarks
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , July vol. 76 no. 1071 1996; (p. 49)
— Review of Passing Remarks 1996 single work novel -
Hodgman's Trajectory
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 184 1996; (p. 29-30)
— Review of Passing Remarks 1996 single work novel -
Maze of Narratives Never Palls
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 12 October 1996; (p. C11)
— Review of Passing Remarks 1996 single work novel
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A Good Bit of Lip and Other Such Fun
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 10 September vol. 116 no. 6037 1996; (p. 87)
— Review of Passing Remarks 1996 single work novel -
Going Mad
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 14-15 September 1996; (p. rev 8)
— Review of Passing Remarks 1996 single work novel ; Samovar 1996 single work novel -
All You Read is Love
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , October vol. 1 no. 2 1996; (p. 3-4)
— Review of Passing Remarks 1996 single work novel ; Zigzag Street 1996 single work novel ; Australian Love Stories 1996 anthology short story extract ; Hungry Ghosts 1996 single work novel -
Maze of Narratives Never Palls
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 12 October 1996; (p. C11)
— Review of Passing Remarks 1996 single work novel -
Hodgman's Trajectory
1996
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 184 1996; (p. 29-30)
— Review of Passing Remarks 1996 single work novel -
A Place of Her Own
1996
single work
biography
— Appears in: Good Weekend , 4 May 1996; (p. 16-17)
- Sydney, New South Wales,
- Blue Mountains, Sydney, New South Wales,