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'What has happened to Ingrid?
'Beautiful Ingrid inherits a fortune and leaves Australia, and her friends, and Ralph who loves her, to marry Gil Grey and set up home amid the New York art world. There she becomes the stepmother to Gil's teenage artist daughter Fleur, a former child prodigy, and studies ancient curse scrolls at Columbia University.
But at 9am on September 11, 2001, she has an appointment downtown. And is never seen again.
Or is she?
Searching for clues about Ingrid's life a year later, her friend Julia uncovers only further layers of mystery and deception.
Both an unputdownable mystery and a compelling meditation on the nature of art, truth, friendship and love...' (From the publisher's website.)
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Dedication: In memory of departed friends, Josh and Kristin
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Epigraph: Well! and what if she should die some afternoon, / Afternoon grey and smoky, evening yellow and rose; / Should die and leave me sitting pen in hand / With the smoke coming down above the housetops; / Doubtful, for quite a while / Not knowing what to feel or if I understand / Or whether wise or foolish, tardy or too soon ... / Would she not have the advantage, after all? / This music is successful with a 'dying fall' / Now that we talk of dying- / And should I have the right to smile? - T. S. Eliot, The Portrait of a Lady
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Other Formats
- Sound recording.
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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Go, Little Book
2014
single work
essay
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 217 2014; (p. 41-46) The Best Australian Essays 2015 2015; 'The article offers the author's insights on the lesson she learned from being reviewed as an author of the novel "The Legacy," a contemporary adaptation and revision of the book by Henry James titled "Portrait of a Lady." Topics discussed by the author include her experience of writing the novel with a grant from the Australian Council, the positive response of the publisher and the reader to her novel, and how she learned about characters and plots from the perspective of the reviewers.' (Publication abstract) -
The Portrait of a Legacy
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 23 no. 1 & 2 2011;
— Review of The Legacy 2010 single work novel -
Something Borrowed, Something Blue
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , October-November vol. 199 no. 2011; (p. 6-7) -
[Review] The Legacy
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: InCite , August vol. 31 no. 8 2011; (p. 33)
— Review of The Legacy 2010 single work novel -
The Silver Age of Fiction
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 110-115)‘In human reckoning, Golden Ages are always already in the past. The Greek poet Hesiod, in Works and Days, posited Five Ages of Mankind: Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic and Iron (Ovid made do with four). Writing in the Romantic period, Thomas Love Peacock (author of such now almost forgotten novels as Nightmare Abbey, 1818) defined The Four Ages of Poetry (1820) in which their order was Iron, Gold, Silver and Bronze. To the Golden Age, in their archaic greatness, belonged Homer and Aeschylus. The Silver Age, following it, was less original, but nevertheless 'the age of civilised life'. The main issue of Peacock's thesis was the famous response that he elicited from his friend Shelley - Defence of Poetry (1821).’ (Publication abstract)
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[Review] The Legacy
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , Summer 2009-2010 vol. 89 no. 5 2009; (p. 36)
— Review of The Legacy 2010 single work novel -
Mystery with a Touch of Spice and Snobbery
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30-31 January 2010; (p. 26-27)
— Review of The Legacy 2010 single work novel -
Acute Eye on Tragedy's Complex Legacy
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 6 February 2010; (p. 12)
— Review of The Legacy 2010 single work novel -
Strangers on a Jamesian Stage
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 February 2010; (p. 25)
— Review of The Legacy 2010 single work novel -
Love and Life Denied
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 February 2010; (p. 22-23)
— Review of The Legacy 2010 single work novel -
Creative Legacy of a Literary Inheritance
2010
single work
biography
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 February 2010; (p. 22-23) -
The Silver Age of Fiction
2011
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , Summer vol. 70 no. 4 2011; (p. 110-115)‘In human reckoning, Golden Ages are always already in the past. The Greek poet Hesiod, in Works and Days, posited Five Ages of Mankind: Golden, Silver, Bronze, Heroic and Iron (Ovid made do with four). Writing in the Romantic period, Thomas Love Peacock (author of such now almost forgotten novels as Nightmare Abbey, 1818) defined The Four Ages of Poetry (1820) in which their order was Iron, Gold, Silver and Bronze. To the Golden Age, in their archaic greatness, belonged Homer and Aeschylus. The Silver Age, following it, was less original, but nevertheless 'the age of civilised life'. The main issue of Peacock's thesis was the famous response that he elicited from his friend Shelley - Defence of Poetry (1821).’ (Publication abstract)
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Something Borrowed, Something Blue
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: Newswrite : The NSW Writers' Centre Magazine , October-November vol. 199 no. 2011; (p. 6-7) -
Making Sense of Random Chaos
Melissa Mia Hall
(interviewer),
2010
single work
interview
— Appears in: Publishers Weekly , 21 June vol. 257 no. 24 2010; (p. 31) 'An interview with Kirsten Tranter, author of the book The Legacy, is presented. She explained the influence of the September 11, 201 terrorist attacks in the .S. on the theme of her book. She described how author Raymond Chandler influenced her writing style. Tranter also revealed her plans after releasing the book The Legacy. -
Go, Little Book
2014
single work
essay
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 217 2014; (p. 41-46) The Best Australian Essays 2015 2015; 'The article offers the author's insights on the lesson she learned from being reviewed as an author of the novel "The Legacy," a contemporary adaptation and revision of the book by Henry James titled "Portrait of a Lady." Topics discussed by the author include her experience of writing the novel with a grant from the Australian Council, the positive response of the publisher and the reader to her novel, and how she learned about characters and plots from the perspective of the reviewers.' (Publication abstract)
Awards
- 2011 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
- 2011 shortlisted ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal
- 2011 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
- 2011 shortlisted Indie Awards — Debut Fiction
- Sydney, New South Wales,
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New York (City),
New York (State),
cUnited States of America (USA),cAmericas,
