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'Katerina arrives in Sydney by ship as a six-year-old in the 1950s, a bewildered newcomer met by her father, whom she barely remembers, and abandoned by her impulsive and flighty mother. She faces a strange and often hostile new country as she and her father struggle to be accepted.
Growing into a beautiful and intelligent young woman, Katerina renames herself Kate and makes the Northern Beaches of Sydney home. At the age of seventeen, while the Vietnam War rages and protest marches fill Australian streets, she is swept into a passionate love affair.
Life for Kate brings joy and tragedy. Inspired by her own experience as a child, she becomes a legal advocate for displaced persons and is forced to confront questions of life and death, freedom and captivity - choices that will change her life forever...' (From the publisher's website.)
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Dedication: For my brother Dick. School teacher, soldier, salesman, farmer.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
- Braille.
Works about this Work
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Feelings of Alienation Resonate Here
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 5 - 6 September 2009; (p. 22)
— Review of A Distant Shore 2009 single work novel -
Off the Shelf : Historical Fiction
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 22 August 2009; (p. 28)
— Review of A Distant Shore 2009 single work novel
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Off the Shelf : Historical Fiction
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 22 August 2009; (p. 28)
— Review of A Distant Shore 2009 single work novel -
Feelings of Alienation Resonate Here
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 5 - 6 September 2009; (p. 22)
— Review of A Distant Shore 2009 single work novel
- Northern Beaches area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
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cGreece,cWestern Europe, Europe,
- 1950s
- 1960s